Book description
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!
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Preface
-
Modeling for E-Business
- Models for E-Business
-
Customer Behavior Models
- Introduction
- Why Model Customer Behavior?
- A Customer Behavior Model of an Online Bookstore
- The Customer Behavior Model Graph (CBMG)
- Building a CBMG
- Aggregate Metrics for Web and E-Business Sites
- Metrics Derived from the CBMG
- The Customer Visit Model (CVM)
- Session Identification
- Concluding Remarks
- Bibliography
- The Anatomy of E-Business Functions
- Evaluating E-Business Infrastructure and Services
- Capacity Planning for E-Business
- Models of Specific E-Business Segments
- Summary, Challenges, and Perspectives
- Glossary of Terms
Product information
- Title: Scaling for E-Business
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2000
- Publisher(s): Pearson
- ISBN: 0130863289
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