Scaling for E-Business

13.3. General Guidelines

Before developing the solution for the two planning problems, remember these specific aspects associated with planning e-business projects.

• One of the major performance metrics of e-business sites is the user perceived response time, which can be written as

  

  The relative contribution of each component of the end-to-end response time varies for each application and online company because it depends on the complexity of the application, the network infrastructure, and the site's architecture. The network time is a function of the performance of the Internet and is beyond the control of any single company or organization. Thus, ...