Capacity Planning For Web Performance - Metrics, Models, And Methods

The first step-by-step approach to measuring, planning and enhancing Web/intranet site performance.
-- Benchmarking, performance modeling, workload forecasting, and more.
-- Detailed case studies show exactly how to use every technique.
-- Understanding the impact of every major Web technology on server performance, including HTTP, TCP/IP, HTML, CGI, Java, multimedia and more.

Virtually overnight, capacity planning has become the most critical issue for Web and intranet developers. This is the first comprehensive guide to every aspect of making sure your Web and intranet servers will deliver the performance your users and executives expect.

Start by reviewing the most common performance and planning scenarios facing Web and intranet managers. Next, review the fundamentals of performance and capacity planning in any client\server environment, and the specific issues associated with Web and intranet protocols and workloads. Then walk step-by-step through assessing the current performance and planning the future capacity of Web and intranet servers, including how to define service level agreements, plan for peak usage times, and manage the tradeoffs between cost and performance. The authors -- world-respected leaders in capacity planning -- show how to characterize existing workloads, use industry standard benchmarks, model performance at both the system and component level, collect data, and forecast performance. Practical case studies tie together all the information in a form that's easy to understand and use.