Performance and Scalability of Distributed Software Architectures: An SPE Approach
Connie U. Smith, Lloyd G. Williams · 2000
Distributed systems were once the exception, constructed only rarely and with great di#culty by developers who spent significant amounts of time mastering the technology. Now, as modern software technologies have made distributed systems easier to construct, they have become the norm. Unfortunately, many distributed systems fail to meet their performance objectives when they are initially constructed. Others perform adequately with a small number of users but do not scale to support increased usage. These performance failures result in damaged customer relations, lost productivity for users, lost revenue, cost overruns due to tuning or redesign, and missed market windows.