Scaling for e-business : technologies, models, performance, and capacity planning / Daniel A. Menansce, Virgilio A. F. Almeida.
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TextPublication details: E Rutherford : Prentice Hall PTR, c2000Description: 462 p. ; ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780130863287 (hbk.); 0130863289 (hbk.)Uniform titles: Scaling for E-Business (Online) Subject(s): Electronic commerceDDC classification: 658.84 LOC classification: HF5548.32 | .M46 2000Summary: Annotation <p>In 1999, slow E-commerce sites cost their owners $44 billion in lost revenue -- and site failures have embarrassed companies from Britannica to eBay, Victoria's Secret to Charles Schwab. In <i>Scaling for e-Business</i>, two of the world's leading Web performance experts present powerful techniques for characterizing, predicting, anticipating, and addressing every aspect of E-commerce site performance. <i>Scaling for e-Business</i> demonstrates how to characterize E-commerce workloads more accurately than any book published yet. It clearly demonstrates techniques for analyzing the performance of authentication and payment services; modeling contention for software servers; modeling and planning for communications infrastructure; and most importantly, forecasting and addressing peak demand. Finally, the Web/E-Commerce developer will discover how to evaluate and project the long-term impact of changes in his/her site visitor profile -- even the growth of non-PC devices and traffic from "intelligent agents" such as comparative shopping bots.</p>
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Annotation <p>In 1999, slow E-commerce sites cost their owners $44 billion in lost revenue -- and site failures have embarrassed companies from Britannica to eBay, Victoria's Secret to Charles Schwab. In <i>Scaling for e-Business</i>, two of the world's leading Web performance experts present powerful techniques for characterizing, predicting, anticipating, and addressing every aspect of E-commerce site performance. <i>Scaling for e-Business</i> demonstrates how to characterize E-commerce workloads more accurately than any book published yet. It clearly demonstrates techniques for analyzing the performance of authentication and payment services; modeling contention for software servers; modeling and planning for communications infrastructure; and most importantly, forecasting and addressing peak demand. Finally, the Web/E-Commerce developer will discover how to evaluate and project the long-term impact of changes in his/her site visitor profile -- even the growth of non-PC devices and traffic from "intelligent agents" such as comparative shopping bots.</p>
Scholarly & Professional Prentice Hall PTR.
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