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Web System Reliability and Performance

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Modern Web applications provide multiple services that are deployed through complex technologies. The importance and the economic impact of consumer-oriented Web applications introduce significant requirements in terms of performance and reliability. This chapter presents several methods to design new, and improve existing, Web applications that, even within a context of unpredictable load variations, must satisfy performance requirements. The chapter also provides a case study that describes the application of the proposed methods to a typical consumeroriented Web application.

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  1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Vignolese 905, 41100, Modena, Italy

    Mauro Andreolini (Dr.), Michele Colajanni (Professor) & Riccardo Lancellotti (Dr.)

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand

    Emilia Mendes

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Andreolini, M., Colajanni, M., Lancellotti, R. (2006). Web System Reliability and Performance. In: Mendes, E., Mosley, N. (eds) Web Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-28218-1_6

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