Title: | WebSphere Engineering: A Practical Guide for WebSphere Support Managers and Senior Consultants |
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WebSphere Engineering: A Practical Guide for WebSphere Support Managers and Senior Consultants
Description
The Practical, End-to-End Guide to
WebSphere® Infrastructure Engineering and Technical
Management Companies depend on the IBM® WebSphere
platform to deliver mission-critical Web applications and services
and to provide the foundation for Service Oriented Architecture
(SOA). To gain maximum value from WebSphere technologies,
organizations must implement comprehensive, integrated best
practices for managing their WebSphere infrastructures. In this
book, one of the most experienced enterprise WebSphere support
managers introduces those best practices and explains exactly how
to make the most of them. Drawing on his tremendous real-world
expertise, Ying Ding shows how to maximize the WebSphere
platform’s reliability, stability, scalability, and
performance for large enterprise systems. You’ll find
insightful discussions of each option and strategy for managing
WebSphere, including practical guidance on making the right
tradeoffs for your environment. Whether you’re a WebSphere
administrator, developer, consultant, support manager, engineer, or
architect, this book brings together the information you need to
run your WebSphere infrastructure with maximum effectiveness and
efficiency. Coverage includes Planning, hiring, training, funding, and building a world-class
WebSphere engineering support organization Implementing tight standards and consistent, comprehensive
processes for managing the entire WebSphere engineering life
cycle Creating optimal testing environments, administering parallel
testing pipelines, and managing testing workloads Empowering production support teams with knowledge, system
privileges, and the right tools Managing production emergencies and critical situations:
evaluating problem severity, mitigating customer experience,
restoring service, performing post-problem resolution, and much
more Maximizing the stability of large-scale interconnected
WebSphere systems for composite applications Supporting WebSphere platforms that provide end-to-end SOA
infrastructure Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Organization Models and
Choices 7 Chapter 2: Building a World-Class WebSphere
Team Through Hiring and Training 41 Chapter 3: WebSphere Operations
Framework 75 Chapter 4: Engagement
Challenges 93 Chapter 5: Server
Build 121 Chapter 6: Functional and Integration
Testing Environment Support 139 Chapter 7: Stress-Testing Environment
Support 153 Chapter 8: Production Environment
Support 171 Chapter 9: Managing a Production
Emergency 195 Chapter 10: System Upgrade and Product
Maintenance Management 239 Chapter 11: Critical Work
Relationships 261 Chapter 12: Managing the Stability of Large
Enterprise WebSphere Systems 283 Chapter 13: WebSphere Engineering Going
Forward 303 Index 321
WebSphere Engineering: A Practical Guide for WebSphere Support Managers and Senior Consultants
The Practical, End-to-End Guide to WebSphere® Infrastructure Engineering and Technical Management
Companies depend on the IBM® WebSphere platform to deliver mission-critical Web applications and services and to provide the foundation for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). To gain maximum value from WebSphere technologies, organizations must implement comprehensive, integrated best practices for managing their WebSphere infrastructures. In this book, one of the most experienced enterprise WebSphere support managers introduces those best practices and explains exactly how to make the most of them.
Drawing on his tremendous real-world expertise, Ying Ding shows how to maximize the WebSphere platform’s reliability, stability, scalability, and performance for large enterprise systems. You’ll find insightful discussions of each option and strategy for managing WebSphere, including practical guidance on making the right tradeoffs for your environment.
Whether you’re a WebSphere administrator, developer, consultant, support manager, engineer, or architect, this book brings together the information you need to run your WebSphere infrastructure with maximum effectiveness and efficiency.
Coverage includes
Planning, hiring, training, funding, and building a world-class WebSphere engineering support organization
Implementing tight standards and consistent, comprehensive processes for managing the entire WebSphere engineering life cycle
Creating optimal testing environments, administering parallel testing pipelines, and managing testing workloads
Empowering production support teams with knowledge, system privileges, and the right tools
Managing production emergencies and critical situations: evaluating problem severity, mitigating customer experience, restoring service, performing post-problem resolution, and much more
Maximizing the stability of large-scale interconnected WebSphere systems for composite applications
Supporting WebSphere platforms that provide end-to-end SOA infrastructure
Introduction 1
Chapter 1: Organization Models and Choices 7
Chapter 2: Building a World-Class WebSphere Team Through Hiring and Training 41
Chapter 3: WebSphere Operations Framework 75
Chapter 4: Engagement Challenges 93
Chapter 5: Server Build 121
Chapter 6: Functional and Integration Testing Environment Support 139
Chapter 7: Stress-Testing Environment Support 153
Chapter 8: Production Environment Support 171
Chapter 9: Managing a Production Emergency 195
Chapter 10: System Upgrade and Product Maintenance Management 239
Chapter 11: Critical Work Relationships 261
Chapter 12: Managing the Stability of Large Enterprise WebSphere Systems 283
Chapter 13: WebSphere Engineering Going Forward 303
Index 321