Scaling for E-Business: Technologies, Models, Performance, and Capacity Planning
Foreword by Jim GrayMicrosoft Research and 1998 ACM Turing Award RecipientThe Complete Guide to Techniques and Models to Evaluate and Plan E-Business Sites!Avoid losing customers due to site crashesPerformance modeling and capacity planning for e-business infrastructureBuild and analyze customer behavior modelsPlan your e-business site to avoid frequent upgrades and migrations"E-business is transforming every element of business in many unknown ways. This book will give its readers a headstart in understanding the quantitative underpinnings of the new environment."— Howard Frank, Dean, Robert H. Smith School of BusinessUniversity of Maryland at College ParkSolid analysis of performance modeling and capacity planning for your e-business site! S low e-commerce sites cost their owners billions and embarrass and degrade their owners' brands. Don't let it happen to you!Scaling for E-Business presents analysis techniques for quantifying and projecting every element of your e-business site's performance-and planning for the capacity you need, no matter what! Discover how to...Characterize e-commerce workloads more accuratelyAnalyze the performance of authentication and payment servicesModel contention for software servers, and ensure scalabilityModel and plan for communications infrastructureForecast and cope with peak demandProject the impact of agent technologies and non-PC devicesYou can't turn to your vendors for these state-of-the-art techniques. But you can turn to Scaling for E-Business-and if you plan to succeed, you'd better!