1. Goals, Issues, and Processes in Capacity Planning; Predicting When Your Systems Will Fail; Make Your System Stats Tell Stories; Buying Stuff: Procurement Is a Process; Performance and Capacity: Two Different Animals; The Effects of Social Websites and Open APIs;
2. Setting Goals for Capacity; Service Level Agreements; Business Capacity Requirements; User Expectations. Architecture DecisionsProviding Scaling Points; Hardware Decisions (Vertical, Horizontal, and Diagonal Scaling); Disaster Recovery; 3. Measurement: Units of Capacity; Round-Robin Database and RRDTool; Ganglia; SNMP; Treating Logs As Past Metrics; Monitoring As a Tool for Urgent Problem Identification; Network Measurement and Planning; Load Balancing; Applications of Monitoring; Storage Capacity; A real-world example: Tracking stora.

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