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Fine grain performance evaluation of e-commerce sites

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Mauro Andreolini,

Michele Colajanni,

Riccardo Lancellotti,

Francesca MazzoniAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Volume 32, Issue 3

Pages 14 - 23

https://doi.org/10.1145/1052305.1052309

Published: 01 December 2004 Publication History

Abstract

E-commerce sites are still a reference for the Web technology in terms of complexity and performance requirements, including availability and scalability. In this paper we show that a coarse grain analysis, that is used in most performance studies, may lead to incomplete or false deductions about the behavior of the hardware and software components supporting e-commerce sites. Through a fine grain performance evaluation of a medium size e-commerce site, we find some interesting results that demonstrate the importance of an analysis approach that is carried out at the software function level with the combination of distribution oriented metrics instead of average values.

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ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review Volume 32, Issue 3

December 2004

51 pages

ISSN:0163-5999

DOI:10.1145/1052305

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Canali CCardellini VColajanni MLancellotti R(2008)Content Delivery and ManagementContent Delivery Networks10.1007/978-3-540-77887-5_4(105-126)Online publication date: 2008
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77887-5_4
Andreolini MCasolari SColajanni M(2006)A Distributed Architecture for Gracefully Degradable Web-Based ServicesProceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications10.1109/NCA.2006.1(235-238)Online publication date: 24-Jul-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/NCA.2006.1
Andreolini MColajanni MLancellotti R(2005)Impact of Memory Technology Trends on Performance of Web SystemsProceedings of the International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices10.1109/NWESP.2005.46Online publication date: 22-Aug-2005
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/NWESP.2005.46

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