Performance Solutions
A Practical Guide to Creating Responsive, Scalable Software
Connie U. Smith and Lloyd G. Williams
"Utterly demystifies the job (no longer the art) of performance engineering. Monsters, begone! Wizards, away! It leaves you feeling that you could really do this on your own. And, thanks to Connie and Lloyd, you can."
—From the Foreword, by Paul Clements
Performance Solutions is published by Addison-Wesley (ISBN 0-201-72229-1) as part of the Object Technology Series. You can order it from Amazon.
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Overview
Performance Solutions offers straightforward techniques and strategies that can be used by software developers, project managers, and performance specialists to manage the performance of software throughout the development process. In particular this book focuses on how to design performance into software systems early and then maintain performance throughout the software development life cycle.
Software Performance Engineering (SPE) is a systematic, quantitative approach to cost-effectively constructing software systems that meet performance requirements. This book details the various SPE models that can be used for a wide variety of applications, including Web-based, distributed systems, and real-time embedded systems. It describes effective data gathering and performance measurement techniques and explores the principles of performance-oriented design. You will also find practical guidance on implementing an SPE program. Specific topics of interest include:
- Reactive versus proactive performance management
- Using UML for SPE
- Specifying key performance scenarios and performance requirements
- Gathering performance data and estimating resource requirements
- Constructing and solving performance models
- Modeling complex interactions in distributed systems
- Planning and conducting performance measurements
- Principles for performance-oriented design
- Patterns that illustrate "best practice" approaches to achieving responsiveness and scalability
- Anti-patterns that illustrate what not to do and how to fix a problem when you find it
- SPE activities for mid- to late life cycle
- Performance tuning strategies
- Integrating SPE into your software process
- SPE implementation strategies and critical success factors
Numerous real-world applications and case studies illustrate the application of SPE techniques to important application domains, including Web and embedded real-time systems.
With this book, you will gain the understanding and skills you need to make informed choices among architectural and design alternatives and create responsive, scalable software on time and within your budget.
From the Publisher
"Software performance is an important area of concern for practitioners. Even so, very few books have been published about it, and these books have been so mathematical in their presentations that few readers have been able to understand or apply them. During the pre-publication review process, it became very apparent that Connie Smith and Lloyd Williams were writing a software performance book that would be accessible to a much wider audience, and that they were doing so without abandoning rigor or integrity."
More Information
The original book by Smith on Performance Engineering of Software Systems is unfortunately out of print. You may be able to find a copy through a used book store or university library.
There is an extensive list of additional publications on SPE.
We also offer a full range of performance consulting and mentoring services to help you get started and to manage new technology.
We offer training to help you learn the SPE methods and techniques.
The SPE•ED™ product enables you to conduct performance studies quickly and easily.