OpenStack Swift: Using, Administering, and Developing for Swift Object Storage
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Book
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ISBN 10
1491900822
ISBN 13
9781491900826
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Publication Year
2014
Publisher
O'Reilly Media, Inc, USA, United States
Pages
338
Subject
Brings you up-to-speed on the basic concepts of object storage and walks you through what you need to know to plan, build, operate, and measure the performance of your own Swift storage system
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Description
Get up and running with OpenStack Swift, the free, open source solution for deploying high-performance object storage clusters at scale. In this practical guide, Joe Arnold, co-founder and CEO of SwiftStack, brings you up-to-speed on the basic concepts of object storage and walks you through what you need to know to plan, build, operate, and measure the performance of your own Swift storage system.
Object storage is essential today with the growth of web, mobile, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. This book helps you through the process, with separate sections on application development, installation, administration, and troubleshooting.
Learn Swift’s concepts for organizing, distributing, and serving data
Explore basic and advanced features of the Swift RESTful API
Delve into Swift’s many client libraries, including useful Python features
Write middleware to customize and simplify your storage system
Understand requirements for planning a Swift deployment—including your specific use case
Learn options for coaxing the best performance from your cluster
Get best practices for daily operations, such as monitoring and planning capacity additions
Pick up techniques for testing and benchmarking your Swift cluster
Object storage is essential today with the growth of web, mobile, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. This book helps you through the process, with separate sections on application development, installation, administration, and troubleshooting.
Learn Swift’s concepts for organizing, distributing, and serving data
Explore basic and advanced features of the Swift RESTful API
Delve into Swift’s many client libraries, including useful Python features
Write middleware to customize and simplify your storage system
Understand requirements for planning a Swift deployment—including your specific use case
Learn options for coaxing the best performance from your cluster
Get best practices for daily operations, such as monitoring and planning capacity additions
Pick up techniques for testing and benchmarking your Swift cluster
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