Scaling for E-Business: Technologies, Models, Performance, and Capacity Planning (電子商務擴展：技術、模型、性能與容量規劃)

Summary

Foreword by Jim Gray
Microsoft Research and 1998 ACM Turing Award Recipient

The Complete Guide to Techniques and Models to Evaluate and Plan E-Business Sites!

• Avoid losing customers due to site crashes
• Performance modeling and capacity planning for e-business infrastructure
• Build and analyze customer behavior models
• Plan your e-business site to avoid frequent upgrades and migrations

"E-business is transforming every element of business in many unknown ways. This book will give its readers a headstart in understanding the quantitative underpinnings of the new environment."
— Howard Frank, Dean, Robert H. Smith School of Business
University of Maryland at College Park

Solid analysis of performance modeling and capacity planning for your e-business site! S low e-commerce sites cost their owners billions and embarrass and degrade their owners' brands. Don't let it happen to you!

Scaling for E-Business presents analysis techniques for quantifying and projecting every element of your e-business site's performance-and planning for the capacity you need, no matter what! Discover how to...

• Characterize e-commerce workloads more accurately
• Analyze the performance of authentication and payment services
• Model contention for software servers, and ensure scalability
• Model and plan for communications infrastructure
• Forecast and cope with peak demand
• Project the impact of agent technologies and non-PC devices

You can't turn to your vendors for these state-of-the-art techniques. But you can turn to Scaling for E-Business-and if you plan to succeed, you'd better!