From this vast Internet-enabled universe of white papers, black magic and everything in between, we have selected a few items of interest in the area of cross-platform techniques for performance engineering. Also featured here is a list of selected writings authored by us. Not surprisingly, our favorite references date back several years; with Gresham's Law of Economics clearly demonstrating its applicability to IT, you may be hard pressed to find some of them anymore.

Our Favorites

1. Lazowska E et. al. Quantitative System Performance: Computer System Analysis Using Queueing Network Models. Prentice-Hall, 1984.
   A classic, now freely downloadable from the author's web page.
2. Mitrani I. "Queuing Theory" in McDermid (ed.) Software Engineer's Reference Book. CRC Press, New York, 1993.
   If during your next airplane flight you want to understand the essence of queuing models applied to Web servers, without worrying about advanced math, this is it.

Contributions by Us

1. Ramaswamy R. The Performance Engineering Book of Nonsense: A Tale of the Tardy, in Limericks. Performance Engineering Associates, 2010.
   A poetic narrative on the state of the practice in PE. Read more about this book by following the main menu link.
2. Ganesan R et. al. "System for performance and scalability analysis and methods thereof" United States Patent 7546222, June 2009.
   A system that encapsulates multiple cross-platform techniques into an analysis tool.
3. Ganesan R. and Sengupta S. "Workload Modeling for Web-based Systems" in Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference of the Computer Measurement Group, 2003.
4. Ramaswamy R. "Probabilistic, application-level connection scheduling in Web servers," IEEE Distributed Systems Online, Dec 2001.
   Building a Web service that needs to offer premium subscribers differential quality of service that can be guaranteed? This paper demonstrates how.