Live Webinar February 24th 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

Building a scalable application that has high availability is not easy and does not come automatically.

To that end, this webcast focuses on five keys that will help build applications that, as their use scales upwards, availability remains high.

Here are the five keys:

• Build your applications keeping availability in mind.
  • Consider availability concerns during all aspects of your application construction.
• Always think about scaling.
  • While building your application, consider how it will perform when it has 10x the traffic it currently does.
    • Do you need a different database strategy?
    • What about state management? Caching?
• Mitigate risk.
  • All systems have vulnerability. Understand the risk your application has, and implement mitigations to reduce the likelihood and severity of the risk occurring.
• Monitor availability.
  • You can’t keep your application running if you don’t know how it is performing.
  • Use application monitoring to keep an eye on how your application is performing, and generate notifications when the application performs in abnormal ways.
• Respond to availability issues in a predictable and defined way.
  • When a problem occurs, do you know what to do to fix the problem?
  • Does everyone on your team know what to do?
  • Do you have playbooks written that have standard procedures and practices for fixing common problems?
  • Have you verified your pager rotation works as expected?

Presenter: Lee Atchison (LinkedIn profile, O’Reilly bio) Principal Engineer and Architecture Lead at New Relic, has experience in  architecting and building high scale, cloud-based, service oriented, SaaS applications. Lee led the building of the New Relic platform; a solid service-based system architecture that scales and infrastructure products  growing New Relic from a simple SaaS startup to a high traffic public enterprise. Previously  as a Senior Manager / Principal Program Manager at Amazon.com he led the creation of the company’s first software download store (app store), he created AWS Elastic Beanstalk offering (Platform as a Service), and lead the team that managed the migration of Amazon’s retail platform from a monolith to an SOA-based architecture.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management
• 8.2 Perform Quality Assurance

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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5 Keys To Building High Availability Web Applications