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Capacity Planning for Web Performance: Models, Metrics and Methods (Paperback)

by Daniel A. Menasce (Author), Virgilio A.F. Almeida (Author)
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  • Paperback: 350 pages
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall; Pap/Cdr edition (6 Jul 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0136938221
  • ISBN-13: 978-0136938224
  • Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 17.8 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,127,050 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Reader Reviews From: Peter J. Denning Many have said that the Web is too amorphous and chaotic to permit meaningful performance forecasts. Almeida and Menasce demolish this myth. Throughput, response time, and congestion can be measured and predicted, all using familiar tools from queuing networks that you can run on your own computer. There is no other book like this. It is a first. Quote by Leonard Kleinrock, Professor of Computer Science, UCLA "This is a welcome approach to the performance analysis of todays web-based Internet. It is a useful and practical treatment that is eminently accessible to the non-mathematical professional. An impressive feature the authors provide is to deal directly with the fractal nature of web-based traffic; no simple and practical treatment has been offered before, and theirs is a timely contribution." From: Jim Gray, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research "This excellent book gives a quantitative and pragmatic approach to measuring, analyzing, and understanding web servers. It presents a good tutorial on the performance issues of web servers, and presents the analytic tools needed to model them. Web servers have bursty and highly-skewed load characteristics. This book presents a new way to model, analyze, and plan for these new performance problems. The book is a valuable resource for students and for web-administrators." From: Jeffrey P. Buzen, Chief Scientist and CoFounder BGS Systems "This book takes the mystery out of analyzing Web performance. The authors have skillfully culled through more than "a" DELETE twenty-five years of performance related research, and have selected the results that are most critical to Web performance. They have also developed important new material that deals directly with the special properties of applications that run on the Web. With everything together in a single volume, Menasce and Almeida have created a superb starting point for anyone wishing to explore the world of Web performance".


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This book will discuss the problem of Capacity Planning and Performance Analysis in Web Server, Inranet and Client/Server environments. It will identify problem areas where capacity planning and performance analysis are critical concerns: arrival rate, through-put, response time, service demand, workload, delay, bottleneck, and saturation. It will discuss protocol (HTTP & TCP/IP) and workloads (access to HTML documents, graphics, etc.). It will show how to access existing capacities and how to plan for future capacities. It will discuss benchmarking metrics, global systems problems, workload forecasting, etc.

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5.0 out of 5 stars THE best book I've seen on queueing theory and the web, 19 May 1999
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Easy enough for any IT person to understand yet detailed enough for real world capacity planning. It doesn't favor any hardware or software but drills in on ways to measure any of them.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Tutorial and Reference for Web Performance Models, 20 Nov 1998
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If you thought Web architectures were too complex for modeling, you are wrong ! This text explains all possible major components of Web transactions - from TCP/IP, http, CGI, proxy and cache servers, browsers, and networks, in detail. It also explains and adapts various utilization, queue, and response time models to performance analysis and capacity projections. This text is outstanding as both a tutorial and reference. Particularly useful are many real world examples with solutions based on the models. The models are available as Excel worksheets. I recommend this text for all who are serious about designing Web applications that scale well and that are responsive to users. --- Ted Hruzd, performance analysis / capacity planning in the securities industry since 1984; platforms: Tandem, HP UX, and NT --- thruzd@hotmail.com
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5.0 out of 5 stars goes to the point and simplifies the modeling effort, 17 Sep 1998
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This is a great book that really simplifies the modeling of complex performance problems. The included CD-ROm contains several tools that allow prediction of throughput, response time, and bottlenecks.
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