May 2009
Intermediate to advanced
398 pages
11h 5m
English
Content preview from Software Performance and Scalability: A Quantitative Approach
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Part 2. Applying Queuing Theory
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe. | ||
| --Galileo Galilei, 1564–1642 | ||
No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically. | ||
| --Leonardo da Vinci | ||
Coping with the performance and scalability of a software system effectively depends not only on the quantitative measurements as described in Part I but also on the quantitative analysis based on proven theories such as queuing theory. It's more reliable to count on queuing theory than on gut instincts in identifying bottlenecks that limit the performance and scalability of a software system, since queuing theory can provide more quantitative and objective guidance. Queuing theory is helpful not only for arriving at the conclusions about where the bottlenecks are but also for giving the prescriptions about how the bottlenecks can actually be removed.
This part is dedicated to queuing theory augmented with case studies as follows:
Please note that the material presented in this part is not an introduction to queuing theory in general and in depth. I'd like to help you learn the part of queuing theory that is most relevant in the context of the performance and scalability of a software system. In other words, queuing theory is introduced in ...
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