The Practical Performance Analyst \ \Large Performance-By-Design Techniques for Distributed Systems

The Practical Performance Analyst
Performance-By-Design Techniques for Distributed Systems

Publishers

Original Printing Second Printing
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McGraw-Hill Inc., New York, New York, Feb 1998 iUniverse.com Inc., Lincoln, Nebraska, Oct 2000
ISBN: 0-07-912946-3 ISBN: 0-59-512674-X
Dewey: QA76.9.D5G86 Dewey: QA76.9.D5G86
Hardcover: 432 pages, 1.50" x 9.75" x 7.75" Paperback: 432 pages, 0.98" x 11.02" x 8.28"
List price: $74 USD with Diskette List price: $45.95 USD, no Diskette

Availability

The 2nd printing can be purchased online from the publisher iUniverse, as well as from Amazon and Barnes&Noble.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Raj Jain
Preface
Biography
Introduction
Acknowledgements
PART I FOUNDATIONS
1 About time!
2 Queueing theory for those who can't wait
3 Systems of queues
4 Distributed performance management
PART II APPLICATIONS
5 Commercial parallelism
6 Parallel systems
7 Multiprocessor systems
8 Client/server applications
9 World wide web servers
PART III INNOVATIONS
10 Small numbers, BIG consequences
11 Paths, potentials, and probabilities
13 Large transients in packet-switching networks
13 Large transients in circuit-switching networks
14 The dynamics of scaling
PART IV APPENDICES
A PDQ User Guide
B Performance Organizations
C Guidelines for Making Multiprocessor Applications Symmetric (Contributed by Robert M. Lane)
D Glossary of Terms
Bibliography
Notes
Index

Reviews

  1. Radio interview on Real Computing 1998

  2. William Stallings in Dr.Dobb's Journal

  3. Amazon customer reviews

Errata

Check the Errata or contribute to the corrigenda.

Software

The latest version of the accompanying open source software: PDQ (Pretty Damn Quick), a performance analysis tool, can now be freely downloaded from this website. An updated version of the PDQ manual (AppendixA of the book) is now also avaliable online.
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