Book review: Performance Measurement of Computer Systems by Phillip McKerrow (Addison-Wesley 1988)
David Finkel · ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review · 1991
As its title indicates, this book has the very specific purpose of applying performance evaluation tools to the study of on-line transaction processing systems. The book provides both an overview of the relevant mathematical methods from performance evaluation, and an application of those methods to transaction processing systems.