Maximizing Your Capacity
Capacity gets lost in dribs and drabs. Small waste adds up, and huge wastes can hide all over your code. Lost capacity can tip your system from cash cow to money pit. Making the most out of your hardware investment is essential, no matter how big or small your business might be.
We constantly hear the myth that “CPU is cheap”, or “disk is cheap”. Yet, wasting just 250 milliseconds per transaction means you need 4 extra servers to handle a million transactions per day.
In this session, Michael shows you how to maximize the capacity in the hardware you've already got, by eliminating common errors and applying some straightforward design patterns.
Capacity measures how much revenue your system can generate during a given period of time. Design choices that reduce your capacity directly reduce the company's top-line revenue numbers. Further, by increasing operational costs, they hurt the bottom line, too.
This session will discuss myths about capacity. It will help you eliminate some common design errors that sap your system's capacity, and it will show you some design patterns that can maximize it.
About Michael Nygard
Michael strives to raise the bar and ease the pain for developers across the country. He shares his passion and energy for improvement with everyone he meets, sometimes even with their permission. Michael has spent the better part of 20 years learning what it means to be a professional programmer who cares about art, quality, and craft. He's always ready to spend time with other developers who are fully engaged and devoted to their work–the “wide awake” developers. On the flip side, he cannot abide apathy or wasted potential.
Michael has been a professional programmer and architect for nearly 20 years. During that time, he has delivered running systems to the U. S. Government, the military, banking, finance, agriculture, and retail industries. More often than not, Michael has lived with the systems he built. This experience with the real world of operations changed his views about software architecture and development forever.
He worked through the birth and infancy of a Tier 1 retail site and has often served as “roving troubleshooter” for other online businesses. These experiences give him a unique perspective on building software for high performance and high reliability in the face of an actively hostile environment.
Most recently, Michael wrote “Release It! Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software”, a book that realizes many of his thoughts about building software that does more than just pass QA, it survives the real world. Michael previously wrote numerous articles and editorials, spoke at Comdex, and co-authored one of the early Java books.
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