OpenStack Swift: A Comprehensive Guide to Object Storage

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OpenStack Swift is an open-source software for developing high-performance object storage clusters. In this user-friendly guide, Joe Arnold, SwiftStack’s co-founder and CEO, takes you through the basic concepts of object storage and helps you plan, build, deploy, and monitor your own Swift storage system.

The book covers everything you need to know about object storage, including application development, administration, installation, and troubleshooting. Swift storage system is versatile, making it an essential tool for web, mobile, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications.

• 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 according to your specific use case
• Get great performance from your cluster by learning optimization options
• Get best practices for daily operations, such as monitoring and planning capacity additions
• Pick up techniques for testing and benchmarking your Swift cluster

Publisher ‏ : ‎ O’Reilly Media; 1st edition (November 11, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 338 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1491900822
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1491900826
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.25 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.01 x 0.7 x 9.17 inches