Animal Science and Industry or Scaling for E Business

Animal Science and Industry

Author: Duane Acker

Animal Science and Industry, fifth edition, relates animal science principles to efficient livestock and poultry production. Comprehensive information and discussion focuses on (1) biological principles of animal function and management; (2) business and financial considerations in efficient animal production systems; (3) appreciation of high-quality animal products - meat, milk, wool, and the use of horses for work and pleasure; and (4) marketing of animals and the processing of their products.

See also: The Fit Or Fat Target Diet or Instructing Hatha Yoga

Scaling for E-Business: Technologies, Models, Performance, and Capacity Planning

Author: Daniel A Menasc

Foreword by Jim Gray
Microsoft Research and 1998 ACM Turing Award Recipient

The Complete Guide to Techniques and Models to Evaluate and Plan E-Business Sites!

• Avoid losing customers due to site crashes
• Performance modeling and capacity planning for e-business infrastructure
• Build and analyze customer behavior models
• Plan your e-business site to avoid frequent upgrades and migrations

"E-business is transforming every element of business in many unknown ways. This book will give its readers a headstart in understanding the quantitative underpinnings of the new environment."
— Howard Frank, Dean, Robert H. Smith School of Business
University of Maryland at College Park

Solid analysis of performance modeling and capacity planning for your e-business site! S low e-commerce sites cost their owners billions and embarrass and degrade their owners' brands. Don't let it happen to you!

Scaling for E-Business presents analysis techniques for quantifying and projecting every element of your e-business site's performance-and planning for the capacity you need, no matter what! Discover how to...

• Characterize e-commerce workloads more accurately
• Analyze the performance of authentication and payment services
• Model contention for software servers, and ensure scalability
• Model and plan for communications infrastructure
• Forecast and cope with peak demand
• Project the impact of agent technologies and non-PC devices

You can't turn to your vendors for these state-of-the-art techniques. But you canturn to Scaling for E-Business-and if you plan to succeed, you'd better!

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction.
2. Customer Behavior Models.
3. The Anatomy of E-business Transactions.
4. Infrastructure for Electronic Business.
5. A Quantitative Analysis of Authentication Services.
6. A Quantitative Analysis of Payment Services.
7. A Capacity Planning Methodology for E-business.
8. Basic Performance Model Concepts.
9. Characterizing E-commerce Performance Models.
10. Building E-commerce Performance Models.
11. Modeling Contention for Software Servers.
12. Modeling the Communication Infrastructure.
13. Forecasting the E-commerce Demand and Load.
14. A Complete E-commerce Case Study.
15. Concluding Remarks.
Appendix A: Glossary.