CAPACITY PLANNING FOR WEB SERVICES - METRICS, MODELS, AND METHODS

Key topics - Daniel A. Menasci and Virgilio Almeida introduce quantitative performance predictive models for every major Web scenario - especially the latest Web services, e-commerce, and mobile applications. The book's extensive coverage of Web services includes; QoS techniques; protocols and interaction models; unique performance, reliability and availability challenges; and new capacity planning methodologies. Menasci and Almeida introduce the fundamentals of performance and capacity planning in any client/server environment; specific issues associated with HTTP and TCP/IP protocols; and typical workloads, including workloads associated with Web services. They demonstrate how to benchmark current performance at both the system and component level; plan future capacity; define service level agreements; accommodate peak usage; and manage tradeoffs between cost and performance.