TY - BOOK AU - Menasce,Daniel A. AU - Almeida,Virgilio A.F. TI - Scaling for e-business: technologies, models, performance, and capacity planning SN - 9780130863287 (hbk.) AV - HF5548.32 .M46 2000 U1 - 658.84 21 PY - 2000/// CY - E Rutherford : PB - Prentice Hall PTR KW - Electronic commerce N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Scholarly & Professional; Prentice Hall PTR N2 - Annotation;

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 Scaling for e-Business, 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. Scaling for e-Business 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.

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