WebSphere Engineering: A Practical Guide for WebSphere Support Managers and Senior Consultants(Hardcover)

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® 基礎架構工程與技術管理的實用全面指南》

公司依賴 IBM® WebSphere 平台提供關鍵任務的網路應用程式和服務，並為服務導向架構 (SOA) 提供基礎。為了從 WebSphere 技術中獲得最大價值，組織必須實施全面、整合的最佳實踐來管理其 WebSphere 基礎架構。在本書中，一位經驗豐富的企業 WebSphere 支援經理介紹了這些最佳實踐，並解釋了如何充分利用它們。

作者憑藉其豐富的實務經驗，展示了如何在大型企業系統中最大化 WebSphere 平台的可靠性、穩定性、可擴展性和性能。您將找到有關管理 WebSphere 的每個選項和策略的深入討論，包括在您的環境中做出正確折衷的實用指導。

無論您是 WebSphere 管理員、開發人員、顧問、支援經理、工程師還是架構師，本書都匯集了您運行 WebSphere 基礎架構所需的信息，以實現最大的效能和效率。

本書內容包括：
- 計劃、招聘、培訓、資金和建立世界級的 WebSphere 工程支援組織
- 實施嚴格的標準和一致的全面流程，管理整個 WebSphere 工程生命週期
- 建立最佳測試環境，管理並行測試流程，以及管理測試工作負載
- 為生產支援團隊提供知識、系統權限和適當的工具
- 管理生產緊急情況和關鍵情況：評估問題嚴重性、減輕客戶體驗、恢復服務、進行問題解決後處理等等
- 最大化大型相互連接的 WebSphere 系統的穩定性，以應對複合應用程式
- 支援提供端到端 SOA 基礎架構的 WebSphere 平台

本書目錄包括：
- 簡介
- 第一章：組織模型和選擇
- 第二章：通過招聘和培訓建立世界級的 WebSphere 團隊
- 第三章：WebSphere 運營框架
- 第四章：參與挑戰
- 第五章：伺服器建置
- 第六章：功能和整合測試環境支援
- 第七章：壓力測試環境支援
- 第八章：生產環境支援
- 第九章：管理生產緊急情況
- 第十章：系統升級和產品維護管理
- 第十一章：關鍵工作關係
- 第十二章：管理大型企業 WebSphere 系統的穩定性
- 第十三章：WebSphere 工程的未來發展
- 索引