Chapter 10. Solution Sizing

Anyone can sell you a hammer but how do you build a shed, a garage, or a condominium complex with it?

Sizing is a fundamental systems engineering activity to determine the appropriate hardware (or costs[72]) and resources to support an application or service. In this case, we are concerned for the APM application and the collection of components that comprise your APM technology solution. How much RAM, CPUs, network, and disk capacity are needed to support your APM technology?

Directly related to these hardware questions are the appropriate capacities of the various APM components that may be supported by a given piece, or instance, of hardware. This will be in terms of metrics, transaction types, and volumes. How much ...

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