Capacity Planning for Web Performance: Metrics, Models, and Methods

By Daniel A. Menasce

This excellent book presents a new way to model, analyze, and plan for these new performance problems associated with the Webs bursty and highly-skewed load characteristics. A valuable resource for students and for Web administrators. -- Jim Gray, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Many have said that the Web is too amorphous and chaotic to permit meaningful performance forecasts. Menasce and Almeida demolish this myth. Throughput, response time, and congestion can be measured and predicted, all using familiar tools from queueing networks that you can run on your own computer. 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 This book takes the mystery out of analyzing Web performance. The authors have skillfully culled through more than a 25 years of research, and selected the results most critical to Web performance, and 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 This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0136938221
• ISBN13: 9780136938224
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Good introduction for the beginner

The modeling of the Internet has become extremely important in recent years as it continues to grow in leaps and bounds. Network architects have to become very aware of the performance issues when they design networks that will be integrated into this elaborate spider of clients, servers, routers, and switches. The issues in the modeling of global networks are extremely complex and involve very advanced mathematical techniques...

THE best book I've seen on queueing theory and the web

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.

Excellent Tutorial and Reference for Web Performance Models

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...

goes to the point and simplifies the modeling effort

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.

A must for any serious web site architect.

As a technical consultant in interactive solutions for a large systems integrator, I am confronted on every project with the capacity planning issues related to e-comm applications. The estimation of sizing and performance are often considered "too complex" and lead to high-level deliverables that eventually cannot serve as an acceptable basis for service level agreements in a company. This book, gives an a methodology...