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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 ...
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
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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 ...
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
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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 ...
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
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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 ...
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
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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 ...
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Sunday, August 5th, 2007
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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 ...
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Sunday, April 29th, 2007
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"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 ...
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Sunday, March 25th, 2007
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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 ...
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Sunday, March 18th, 2007
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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 ...
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Sunday, March 18th, 2007
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“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 ...
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Sunday, March 18th, 2007
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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 ...
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Sunday, March 18th, 2007
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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