Archive for the ‘Books’ Category

Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications provides an end-to-end approach for implementing performance testing. Whether you are new to performance testing or looking for ways to improve your current performance-testing approach, you will gain insights that you can tailor to your specific scenarios. The information in this guide is based on ...

Guerrilla Capacity Planning

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

Book Description In these days of shortened fiscal horizons and contracted time-to-market schedules, traditional approaches to capacity planning are often seen by management as tending to inflate their production schedules. Rather than giving up in the face of this kind of relentless pressure to get things done faster, Guerrilla Capacity Planning ...

Scalable Internet Architectures

Friday, September 28th, 2007

Book Description As a developer, you are aware of the increasing concern amongst developers and site architects that websites be able to handle the vast number of visitors that flood the Internet on a daily basis. Scalable Internet Architecture addresses these concerns by teaching you both good and bad design methodologies ...

High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers

Friday, September 28th, 2007

Book Description Want your web site to display more quickly? This book presents 14 specific rules that will cut 20% to 25% off response time when users request a page. Author Steve Souders, in his job as Chief Performance Yahoo!, collected these best practices while optimizing some of the most-visited pages ...

Building Scalable Web Sites

Friday, September 28th, 2007

Book Description Learn the tricks of the trade so you can build and architect applications that scale quickly--without all the high-priced headaches and service-level agreements associated with enterprise app servers and proprietary programming and database products. Culled from the experience of the Flickr.com lead developer, Building Scalable Web Sites offers techniques ...

Java Performance Tuning

Sunday, August 5th, 2007

Book Description Performance has been an important issue for Java developers ever since the first version hit the streets. Over the years, Java performance has improved dramatically, but tuning is essential to get the best results, especially for J2EE applications. You can never have code that runs too fast. Java Peformance ...

Solaris Performance and Tools

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

From the Back Cover "The Solaris™Internals volumes are simply the best and most comprehensive treatment of the Solaris (and OpenSolaris) Operating Environment. Any person using Solaris--in any capacity--would be remiss not to include these two new volumes in their personal library. With advanced observability tools in Solaris (like DTrace), you will ...

Analyzing Computer Systems Performance: With Perl: PDQ

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

Book Description Analyzing computer system performance is often regarded by most system administrators, IT professionals and software engineers as a black art that is too time consuming to learn and apply. Finally, this book by acclaimed performance analyst Dr. Neil Gunther makes this subject understandable and applicable through programmatic examples. The ...

Pro Java EE 5 Performance Management and Optimization

Sunday, March 18th, 2007

Book Description Pro Java EE 5 Performance Management and Optimization features proven methodology to guarantee top-performing Java EE 5 applications, and explains how to measure performance in your specific environment. The book also details performance integration points throughout the development and deployment lifecycles that are crucial for application success. For QA and ...

Sun Performance and Tuning

Sunday, March 18th, 2007

From the Back Cover “As practical as a Swiss Army knife for a power-hungry SysAdmin. For all the Sun gurus, veterans and newbies: This is for you. As a must-have in one's library, it'll be one of your most worn out references in your serious IT career. It is practical and ...

Integrated Approach to Web Performance Testing

Sunday, March 18th, 2007

Book Description The performance testing of Web applications is not understood properly and no skill sets are available to address the challenges faced by practitioners. In addition, there is currently a lack of available research on the performance aspects of the application. Integrated Approach to Web Performance Testing: A Practitioner's Guide fills ...

Web Performance Tuning

Sunday, March 18th, 2007

Book Description As long as there's been a Web, people have been trying to make it faster. The maturation of the Web has meant more users, more data, more features, and consequently longer waits on the Web. Improved performance has become a critical factor in determining the usability of the Web ...

Solaris Internals

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

From the Back Cover "The Solaris™Internals volumes are simply the best and most comprehensive treatment of the Solaris (and OpenSolaris) Operating Environment. Any person using Solaris--in any capacity--would be remiss not to include these two new volumes in their personal library. With advanced observability tools in Solaris (likeDTrace), you will more often find yourself in what ...

Performance Solutions

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

Book Info Techniques presented are collectively known as software performance engineering (SPE). Primarily intended for experienced software developers who have used object-oriented techniques on one or more development projects.