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Summary: Good introduction to techniques and concepts
Review: This book fits between Raj Jain's seminal "The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis" (ISBN 0471503363) and the more pragmatic series of books written by Menasce and Almeida. Where it differs from Jain's book is the more modern examples, using networking, database systems and overall architectures (Jain's book was more slanted towards host-based systems prevalent when that book was written).The first chapters in this book cover the basics, concepts and associated math: probability, queuing theory, stochastic processes and Petri nets. This foundational material is clearly presented and cover all of the key elements of performance analysis (and capacity planning). The remainder of the book applies the concepts and techniques to analyzing architectures, operating system and DBMS and network components. The final two chapters cover system modeling project ideas and how to use the performance evaluator application that is on the CD ROM that comes with the book. I haven't fully exercised this application, so will refrain from commenting on it. It is not needed to use the book. Overall, this book is sufficiently technical and detailed to give all of the essential knowledge needed for solid performance and capacity management. If I had to choose between Jain's book cited above or this one, this is the one I'd pick because of its relevance to contemporary systems.
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