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Architecting High Performing, Scalable and Available Enterprise Web Applications
- 1st Edition - October 29, 2014
- Author: Shailesh Kumar Shivakumar
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 2 2 5 8 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 2 5 2 8 - 4
Architecting High Performing, Scalable and Available Enterprise Web Applications provides in-depth insights into techniques for achieving desired scalability, availability and pe… Read more
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Request a sales quoteArchitecting High Performing, Scalable and Available Enterprise Web Applications provides in-depth insights into techniques for achieving desired scalability, availability and performance quality goals for enterprise web applications. The book provides an integrated 360-degree view of achieving and maintaining these attributes through practical, proven patterns, novel models, best practices, performance strategies, and continuous improvement methodologies and case studies. The author shares his years of experience in application security, enterprise application testing, caching techniques, production operations and maintenance, and efficient project management techniques.
- Delivers holistic view of scalability, availability and security, caching, testing and project management
- Includes patterns and frameworks that are illustrated with end-to-end case studies
- Offers tips and troubleshooting methods for enterprise application testing, security, caching, production operations and project management
- Exploration of synergies between techniques and methodologies to achieve end-to-end availability, scalability, performance and security quality attributes
- 360-degree viewpoint approach for achieving overall quality
- Practitioner viewpoint on proven patterns, techniques, methodologies, models and best practices
- Bulleted summary and tabular representation of concepts for effective understanding
- Production operations and troubleshooting tips
enterprise architects, infrastructure architects, performance engineers, software developers, software testers, project managers, production support and maintenance personnel, system administrators and students
DedicationPreface All-around quality360° view: key highlights and differentiators of the bookMotivation for the bookMain themes and focus areasOrganization of chaptersTarget audienceDeclarationAbout the AuthorAcknowledgments1. Architecting Scalable Enterprise Web Applications 1.1 Introduction1.2 Scalability layers1.3 Key tenets of enterprise scalability1.4 Challenges for scalability1.5 Scalability patterns and best practices1.6 Architecting scalable systems1.7 Scalability testing1.8 Scalability anti-patterns1.9 Case study1.10 Chapter summary2. Ensuring High Availability for Your Enterprise Web Applications 2.1 Introduction2.2 High availability planning2.3 Challenges to high availability2.4 High availability architecture patterns and best practices2.5 High availability for storage, network, and database components2.6 High availability database2.7 Network availability2.8 5R model for high availability2.9 Other aspects of high availability2.10 Availability anti-patterns2.11 High availability governance2.12 Uninterrupted system and application maintenance2.13 High availability testing2.14 Case study2.15 Chapter summary3. Optimizing Performance of Enterprise Web Application 3.1 Introduction3.2 WPO concepts and analysis3.3 WPO strategy3.4 Optimizing performance for supporting ecosystem components3.5 Asset optimization strategy3.6 Other dimensions of performance optimization3.7 Performance anti-patterns3.8 Web analytics-based performance improvement3.9 Performance governance framework3.10 Case study for top-down performance optimization3.11 Chapter summary4. Caching for Enterprise Web Application 4.1 Introduction4.2 Impact on scalability, availability, and performance4.3 Cache concepts4.4 Cache design4.5 Caching patterns4.6 Caching antipatterns4.7 Caching strategy4.8 Cache metrics and administration4.9 Chapter summary5. Securing Enterprise Web Application 5.1 Introduction5.2 Security strategy5.3 Vulnerability, threat, and risk assessment5.4 Designing security principles and policies5.5 Implementing security policy at all levels5.6 Security testing and monitoring5.7 Chapter summary6. Enterprise Web Application Testing 6.1 Introduction6.2 Web testing challenges6.3 Testing best practices6.4 Testing estimation at each project phase6.5 UCAPP testing model for enterprise applications6.6 Other aspects of testing6.7 Chapter summary7. Project Management for Enterprise Applications 7.1 Introduction7.2 Survey and analysis of enterprise software projects7.3 Project management best practices during various phases of the software project7.4 Lead indicators of quality issues7.5 Proactive quality approach techniques7.6 Project quality tools and metrics7.7 Governance7.8 Chapter summary8. Operations and Maintenance 8.1 Introduction8.2 Continuous build and deployment8.3 Monitoring and notification8.4 Production issue troubleshooting and incident handling8.5 Production operations8.6 Chapter summary9. Enterprise Architecture Case Study: ElectronicsDeals Online 9.1 Case study context9.2 ElectronicsDeals case study9.3 Architecture solution9.4 Designing initial architecture9.5 Making the ElectronicsDeals online scalable9.6 Adding high availability features for ElectronicsDeals online9.7 Accelerated performance for ElectronicsDeals online9.8 Securing ElectronicsDeals online9.9 Project execution strategy of ElectronicsDeals Online9.10 Logical architecture9.11 Risk and mitigation strategyBibliography Further Reading
- No. of pages: 288
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 29, 2014
- Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128022580
- eBook ISBN: 9780128025284
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Shailesh Kumar Shivakumar
Shailesh Kumar Shivakumar is a Senior Technology Architect at Infosys Technologies Limited with over 13 years of industry experience. His areas of expertise include Java Enterprise technologies, Performance engineering, Enterprise portal technologies, User interface components and performance optimization. He is a Guinness world record holder of participation for successfully developing a mobile application in coding marathon. He has four patent applications including two US patent applications in the area of web and social technologies.
He was involved in multiple large-scale and complex online transformation projects for Fortune 500 clients of his organization. He also provided on-demand consultancy in performance engineering for critical projects across various units in the organization. His has hands-on experience on breadth of technologies including web technologies, portal technologies and database technologies and has worked on multiple domain areas such as retail, manufacturing, e-commerce, avionics etc. He was the chief architect of an online platform which won “best web support site” award among global competitors.
He is a regular blogger at Infosys Thought Floor and many of his technical white papers are published in Infosys external site. He has delivered two talks at Oracle JavaOne 2013 conference on performance optimization and project management and has presented a paper at IEEE conference on knowledge management systems. He also headed a center-of-excellence for portals and is currently the practice lead for enterprise portal practice. He led multiple thought-leadership and productivity improvement initiatives and was part of special interest groups (SIG) related to emerging web technologies at his organization.
He holds numerous professional certifications including Oracle Certified Master (OCM) Java Enterprise Edition 5, Sun certified Java programmer, Sun Certified Business component developer, IBM certified Solution Architect – Cloud computing, IBM Certified Solution Developer – IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1 and many others. He has won numerous awards including prestigious Infosys Awards for Excellence 2013-14 “Multi-talented thought leader" under “Innovation – Thought leadership” category, “Brand ambassador award” for MFG unit, delivery excellency award and multiple spot awards and received honor from executive vice chairman of his organization. He is featured as “Infy star” in Infosys Hall of fame and recently led a delivery team which won the “best project team” award at his organization. He holds an engineering degree in computer science and has done executive management program from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He lives in Bangalore, India and can be reached at [email protected]. Linked in profile page: in.linkedin.com/in/shaileshkumarshivakumar/
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Senior Technology Architect at Infosys Technologies Limited, Bangalore, IndiaRead Architecting High Performing, Scalable and Available Enterprise Web Applications on ScienceDirect