Performance and Scalability Models for a Hypergrowth e-Commerce Web Site
<|reference_start|>Performance and Scalability Models for a Hypergrowth e-Commerce Web Site: The performance of successful Web-based e-commerce services has all the allure of a roller-coaster ride: accelerated fiscal growth combined with the ever-present danger of running out of server capacity. This chapter presents a case study based on the author's own capacity planning engagement with one of the hottest e-commerce Web sites in the world. Several spreadsheet techniques are presented for forecasting both short-term and long-term trends in the consumption of server capacity. Two new performance metrics are introduced for site planning and procurement: the effective demand, and the doubling period.<|reference_end|>
@article{gunther2000performance,
    title={Performance and Scalability Models for a Hypergrowth e-Commerce Web Site},
    author={Neil J. Gunther},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0012022},
    year={2000},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cs/0012022},
    primaryClass={cs.PF cs.DC cs.SE}
}