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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

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 3 Ratings

Invaluable resource for all WebSphere organisations - 2009-04-15
Reviewer Rating:
Ying's book is a must-have for any organisation trying to manage large-scale deployments of WebSphere. Even if you think you're doing it as well as it can be done, there is so much information in this book I have no doubt you'll find something you could be doing better. I know we have!

Must have WebSphere book! - 2009-03-24
Reviewer Rating:
Ying's book deals with the "practical" of WebSphere Engineering. It never occured to me to write down the scenarios outlined in Ying's book. I think we are very fortunate that Ying took the time to do this. These scenarios very insightful, extremely practical, and provide a wealth of information related to WebSphere Engineering.

If you plan to start a new team, or are already part of an existing WebSphere infrastructure team, I highly recommend reading this book. It will save you a lot of time & effort when dealing with the day-to-day.

Oustanding Guide - 2009-03-18
Reviewer Rating:
Ying has hit a very needed gap in the industry with his publication. Whether you are hoping to join a WebSphere team, growing one, or been on one for years this has a tremendous amount of useful information. Ying's many years of knowledge in this industry are evident with the details and experiences he has documented here. WebSphere customers would be well served to take advantage of his advice. I especially appreciated the attention Ying has put on building the right team and how important this is in the eventual success of a project. His insight on testing and why this is so crucial are extremely valuble.

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