WebSphere Engineering A Practical Guide for WebSphere Support Managers and Senior Consultants

by Ding, Ying

• ISBN13: 9780137142255
• ISBN10: 0137142250
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-18
• Publisher: IBM Press

Summary

The practical, rigorous, end-to-end guide to successful WebSphere infrastructure engineering and technical management  Real-world engineering process strategies for delivering stable, reliable, costeffective WebSphere-based IT products and services.  Gives WebSphere professionals the insight they need to manage all the tradeoffs and options available to them.  Written by a practitioner with extensive experience managing WebSphere in missioncritical Bank of America applications. Thousands of large companies depend on the IBM WebSphere platform to deliver their most critical web applications and services, and to provide the foundation for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). To deliver on the promise of WebSphere technologies, organizations need to implement a comprehensive, integrated set of best practices for managing WebSphere infrastructure. Now, an expert Bank of America WebSphere support manager presents those best practices and explains how to make the most of them. Drawing on his immense real-world experience, the author shows exactly how to maximize the WebSphere platform's reliability, stability, scalability, and performance in large-scale production environments. WebSphere practitioners will find expert, insightful discussions of each option and strategy for managing WebSphere, including practical guidance on making the right tradeoffs for their environments. Coverage includes: building the right engineering support team; establishing the right processes and tasks; managing code migration, testing, and software upgrades; establishing enterprise architecture; planning capacity; preparing for large interconnected systems; and much more. Simply put, this book brings together all the trustworthy information WebSphere practitioners need to run their WebSphere infrastructure effectively - and maximize its business value.

Author Biography

Ying Ding is an IT veteran who has worked for IBM Global Technology Services as an e-business consultant to several major IBM energy and utilities customers.

 

Ying holds IBM certifications as a WebSphere System Expert, XML and related technologies expert, and e-business technologist. Ying writes and speaks frequently on WebSphere engineering topics, especially in the area of large system stability.

 

Ying is a graduate of one of China’s largest and best universities, Jilin University at Changchun. Upon graduation, Ying was offered a lecturer position at the Graduate School of Jilin University. He studied at Brigham Young University, Hawaii Campus, as the first exchange student from China, and earned his M.S. in computer science from the engineering college of Lamar University at Texas.

 

Ying’s primary research interests are in large IT infrastructure stability and resiliency, technical management of the IT engineering process, and IT infrastructure engineering methodology.

 

Ying lives with his wife and son in Charlotte, North Carolina. He can be reached at [e-mail].

 

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Organization Models and Choices	p. 7
Building a World-Class WebSphere Team Through Hiring and Training	p. 41
WebSphere Operations Framework	p. 75
Engagement Challenges	p. 93
Server Build	p. 121
Functional and Integration Testing Environment Support	p. 139
Stress-Testing Environment Support	p. 153
Production Environment Support	p. 171
Managing a Production Emergency	p. 195
System Upgrade and Product Maintenance Management	p. 239
Critical Work Relationships	p. 261
Managing the Stability of Large Enterprise WebSphere Systems	p. 283
WebSphere Engineering Going Forward	p. 303
Index	p. 321
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