John Allspaw

Web operations enthusiast, capacity planner, author

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John Allspaw John has worked in systems operations for over fourteen years in biotech, government and online media. He started out tuning parallel clusters running vehicle crash simulations for the U.S. government, and then moved on to the Internet in 1997. He built the backing infrastructures at Salon, InfoWorld, Friendster, and Flickr. He is now SVP of Tech Operations at Etsy, and is the author of The Art of Capacity Planning and Web Operations published by O'Reilly.

Web Operations
by John Allspaw , Jesse Robbins
June 2010
Print: $39.99
Ebook: $35.99

The Art of Capacity Planning
by John Allspaw
September 2008
Print: $44.99
Ebook: $35.99

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http://radar.oreilly.com

Velocity is coming to Europe

October 13 2011

The Velocity Conference has already turned once exotic topics like database scaling and mobile performance into common knowledge. Now, Velocity is bringing its mix of web ops and performance evangelism to Europe. read more

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Webcast: Velocity 2011: Take-aways, Trends, and Highlights
June 24, 2011
The web performance and operations community will gather for three days at Velocity on June 14-16 in Santa Clara, California. In this webcast following the conference, program chairs Steve Souders and John Allspaw will identify and discuss key trends...

"John Allspaw understands capacity planning as Michael Phelps understands swimming. The Art of Capacity Planning distills his knowledge for you into its most practical essence: the process everyone should follow when managing production infrastructures."
--Adam Jacob, Founder and Senior Partner at HJK Solutions, a consulting firm for building automation platforms

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