PerformanceEngineer.com » Books http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog Software Performance Engineering & Testing Sat, 23 Jan 2010 02:02:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The Art of Application Performance Testing http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/the-art-of-application-performance-testing/ http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/the-art-of-application-performance-testing/#comments Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:35:58 +0000 charlie http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/?p=161 http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/the-art-of-application-performance-testing/feed/ 0 The Art of Capacity Planning: Scaling Web Resources http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/the-art-of-capacity-planning-scaling-web-resources/ http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/the-art-of-capacity-planning-scaling-web-resources/#comments Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:32:25 +0000 charlie http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/?p=154 http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/the-art-of-capacity-planning-scaling-web-resources/feed/ 0 Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/performance-testing-guidance-for-web-applications/ http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/performance-testing-guidance-for-web-applications/#comments Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:44:47 +0000 charlie PerfTestingGuide.gif 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. ]]> http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/performance-testing-guidance-for-web-applications/feed/ 1 Guerrilla Capacity Planning http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/guerrilla-capacity-planning/ http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/guerrilla-capacity-planning/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:32:04 +0000 charlie

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 facilitates rapid forecasting of capacity requirements based on the opportunistic use of whatever performance data and tools are available in such a way that management insight is expanded but their schedules are not. ]]> http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/guerrilla-capacity-planning/feed/ 0 Scalable Internet Architectures http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/scalable-internet-architectures/ http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/scalable-internet-architectures/#comments Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:56:57 +0000 charlie

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 for building new sites and how to scale existing websites to robust, high-availability websites. Primarily example-based, the book discusses major topics in web architectural design, presenting existing solutions and how they work. Technology budget tight? This book will work for you, too, as it introduces new and innovative concepts to solving traditionally expensive problems without a large technology budget. Using open source and proprietary examples, you will be engaged in best practice design methodologies for building new sites, as well as appropriately scaling both growing and shrinking sites. Website development help has arrived in the form of Scalable Internet Architecture. ]]> http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/scalable-internet-architectures/feed/ 0 High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/high-performance-web-sites/ http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/high-performance-web-sites/#comments Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:51:59 +0000 charlie

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 on the Web. Even sites that had already been highly optimized, such as Yahoo! Search and the Yahoo! Front Page, were able to benefit from these surprisingly simple performance guidelines. ]]> http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/high-performance-web-sites/feed/ 2 Building Scalable Web Sites http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/building-scalable-web-sites/ http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/building-scalable-web-sites/#comments Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:41:29 +0000 charlie

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 for creating fast sites that your visitors will find a pleasure to use. Creating popular sites requires much more than fast hardware with lots of memory and hard drive space. It requires thinking about how to grow over time, how to make the same resources accessible to audiences with different expectations, and how to have a team of developers work on a site without creating new problems for visitors and for each other. ]]> http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/building-scalable-web-sites/feed/ 0 Java Performance Tuning http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/java-performance-tuning/ http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/java-performance-tuning/#comments Sun, 05 Aug 2007 14:44:54 +0000 charlie

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 Tuning, 2nd edition provides a comprehensive and indispensable guide to eliminating all types of performance problems. Using many real-life examples to work through the tuning process in detail, JPT shows how tricks such as minimizing object creation and replacing strings with arrays can really pay off in improving your code's performance. ]]> http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/java-performance-tuning/feed/ 0 Solaris Performance and Tools http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/solaris-performance-and-tools/ http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/solaris-performance-and-tools/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2007 03:55:12 +0000 charlie

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 more often find yourself in what was previously unchartable territory. Solaris™ Internals, Second Edition, provides us a fantastic means to be able to quickly understand these systems and further explore the Solaris architecture--especially when coupled with OpenSolaris source availability." --Jarod Jenson, chief systems architect, Aeysis ]]> http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/solaris-performance-and-tools/feed/ 0 Analyzing Computer Systems Performance: With Perl: PDQ http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/analyzing-computer-systems-performance-with-perl-pdq/ http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/analyzing-computer-systems-performance-with-perl-pdq/#comments Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:45:16 +0000 charlie

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 means to this end is the open-source performance analyzer Pretty Damn Quick (PDQ) written in Perl and available for download from the author’s Website: www.perfdynamics.com. ]]> http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/analyzing-computer-systems-performance-with-perl-pdq/feed/ 0 Pro Java EE 5 Performance Management and Optimization http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/pro-java-ee-5-performance-management-and-optimization/ http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/pro-java-ee-5-performance-management-and-optimization/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:05:57 +0000 charlie

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 preproduction stages, this book guides you through testing and optimally deploying your Java EE 5 applications, with a focus on assessing capacity and discovering saturation points. It defines the concept and application of wait-based tuning--one of the most effective approaches to application server tuning. ]]> http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/pro-java-ee-5-performance-management-and-optimization/feed/ 1 Sun Performance and Tuning http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/sun-performance-and-tuning/ http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/sun-performance-and-tuning/#comments Sun, 18 Mar 2007 21:26:00 +0000 charlie

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 very illustrative in its approach to solving sample problems.” —Dexter D. Laggui Hailed in its first edition as an indispensable reference for system administrators, Sun Performance and Tuning has been revised and expanded to cover Solaris 2.6, the newest generation of SPARC hardware, and the latest Internet and Java server technologies. Featuring a quick guide to get you started, as well as detailed reference information, this book is indispensable both for developers who need to design for speed and administrators who need to manage system and network performance. ]]> http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/sun-performance-and-tuning/feed/ 0 Integrated Approach to Web Performance Testing http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/integrated-approach-to-web-performance-testing/ http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/integrated-approach-to-web-performance-testing/#comments Sun, 18 Mar 2007 21:19:58 +0000 charlie

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 this void and provides an integrated approach and guidelines to performance testing of Web-based systems. Based upon a mix of theoretical and practical concepts, this book provides a detailed understanding of the various aspects of performance testing in relation to the different phases of the software development life cycle. Using a rich mixture of examples, checklists, and templates, this book illustrates the different facets of application performance. Integrated Approach to Web Performance Testing: A Practitioner's Guide applies a practical approach to making appropriate choices of tools, methodologies and project management for performance testing. ]]> http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/integrated-approach-to-web-performance-testing/feed/ 0 Web Performance Tuning http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/web-performance-tuning/ http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/web-performance-tuning/#comments Sun, 18 Mar 2007 21:13:49 +0000 charlie

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 in general and of individual sites in particular. Web Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition is about getting the best possible performance from the Web. This book isn't just about tuning web server software; it's also about streamlining web content, getting optimal performance from a browser, tuning both client and server hardware, and maximizing the capacity of the network itself. Web Performance Tuning hits the ground running, giving concrete advice for quick results -- the "blunt instruments" for improving crippled performance right away. The book then shifts gears to give a conceptual background of the principles of computing performance. ]]> http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/web-performance-tuning/feed/ 0 Solaris Internals http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/node-14/ http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/node-14/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:00:14 +0000 charlie

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 was previously unchartable territory. Solaris™ Internals, Second Edition, provides us a fantastic means to be able to quickly understand these systems and further explore the Solaris architecture--especially when coupled with OpenSolaris source availability." --Jarod Jenson, chief systems architect, Aeysis ]]> http://www.performanceengineer.com/blog/node-14/feed/ 0