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

The #1 guide to Web capacity planning -- now completely updated!

• A quantitative analysis of Web service availability
• An integrated coverage of benchmarking, load testing, workload forecasting, and performance modeling of Web services
• Example and case studies show how to use each technique in the latest Web services, portals, search engines, mobile and streaming-media applications
• A quantitative framework for planning the capacity of Web services and understanding their behavior

The world's #1 book on Web capacity planning now covers the latest Web services, e-business, and mobile applications! Capacity Planning for Web Services: Metrics, Models, and Methods introduces quantitative performance predictive models for every major Web scenario, showing precisely how to identify and address both potential and actual performance problems. Coverage includes:

• Web services: protocols, interaction models, and unique performance, reliability, and availability challenges
• State-of-the-art capacity planning methodologies
• Spreadsheets implement the solutions of the models presenteed in the book
• Specific issues and workloads associated with HTTP and TCP/IP protocols
• Benchmarking current performance at system and component levels

From accommodating current usage peaks to defining service provider SLAs, Daniel A. Menasce and Virgilio Almeida cover every aspect of capacity planning - helping you optimize every tradeoff between cost and performance.

"This bookis the best guide available to understanding the uniqueperformance challenges involved in delivering today's Web services."

- Mark Crovella,Associate Professor, Boston University;| Technical Director, Network Appliance

"...asuperb starting point for anyone wishing to explore the world of Web performance."

- Jeffrey P. Buzen, President of CMG;| Co-Founder, BGS Systems

"There is no other book like this. It is a first."

- Peter J. Denning, Professor of Computer Science, George Mason University and former President of the ACM

"Web servers have bursty andhighly-skewed load characteristics. This book presents a new way tomodel, analyze, and plan for these new performance problems."

- Jim Gray, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research;| 1998 ACM Turing Award Recipient

"...a welcome approach to the performance analysis of today'sWeb-based Internet. ... no simple and practical treatment has been offered before, andtheirs is a timely contribution."

- Leonard Kleinrock, Professor of Computer Science, UCLA;| Chairman and Founder, Nomadix, Inc.