Performance Assurance for It Systems

List of contents

INDIVIDUAL AREAS OF INTEREST. Preparing for the challenge. Caveat emptor. Lies, damned lies, and benchmarks. Non-functional requirements and solutions. Hardware sizing: The crystal ball gazing act. Bid logistics. Designing for performance, scalability, and resilience. Awareness of queues. Non-functional acceptance. Post-production. Softer issues. So what? TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION. Introduction to technology tasters. Operating systems. CPU basics. Memory. Hard disk basics. Server infrastructure. Multiprocessors (shared memory). Hard disk: Fibre Channel, SAN and NAS. File access basics. Relational database basics. Back-end server clusters. Network basics. Firewalls. Server load balancing. Web server and cache server. LDAP server. Modern server-side development technologies.

About the author

Brian King

Product details

• Authors: Brian King
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.09.2019
• EAN: 9780367394011
• ISBN: 978-0-367-39401-1
• No. of pages: 376
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Production & Operations Management, COMPUTERS / Information Technology, COMPUTERS / Computer Engineering, Information technology: general issues, Computer architecture & logic design, COMPUTERS / Computer Architecture, Information technology: general topics, Computer architecture and logic design, Network Management