Oracle Database Performance and Scalability: A Quantitative Approach
HENRY H. LIU, PHD, is a Software Developer specializing in developing distributed, high performing, scalable enterprise software products using Java technologies. He is a certified Sun Enterprise Java Architect, IBM XML Developer, and Microsoft .Net Developer. Prior to becoming a software engineer, he had a physicist career and published over 30 research papers in physics while working in the national labs of China, France, Germany, and the United States. His honors include being the author of the highly acclaimed Software Performance and Scalability: A Quantitative Approach (Wiley, 2009),  an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow in Germany, and a  CMG 2004 Best Paper Award recipient for applying queuing theory to analyzing software performance. Dr. Liu enjoys writing to help software developers learn new, usable skills fast.