Chapter 12. Modeling and Capacity Planning
We always try to anticipate the bad things that could happen to our online activities: What if there is a network or server crash? What if our customer traffic really doubles this quarter? What if we don't deploy new servers and routers for another six months?
The long-term functions discussed in this chapter and Chapter 11, “Load Testing,” ensure that there are adequate resources and that we better understand how to structure operational options. (The long-term time scale is days or weeks versus the minutes and seconds involved in real-time management processes.)
The long-term function of load testing is discussed in Chapter 11; this current chapter discusses the long-term functions of simulation modeling ...
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