Brian King

Performance Assurance for IT Systems

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Performance Assurance for IT Systems emphasizes the importance of addressing performance and technology-related issues from the feasibility and bid stages. It promotes the concept of Performance Assurance throughout the entire system lifecycle, covering technology, relevant processes, and people-related topics. The book consists of two major parts: Part I covers the processes deployed throughout the system lifecycle, including the choice of technologies, client requirements, sizing, stress testing, and capacity management; Part II provides a technology foundation made up of brief primers on hardware and software technologies, discussing key factors that influence performance and help management make informed decisions on technical risk.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780367394011
• ISBN-10: 0367394014
• Artikelnr.: 57732910

Autorenporträt

Brian King

Inhaltsangabe

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.