Performance Modeling and Design of Computer Systems

Mor Harchol-Balter

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kqrDec 4, 2022

there is one clear favourite among many very good ones: Performance Modeling and Design of Computer Systems. Queueing theory is probably one of the most useful subjects of all time

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mjbFeb 1, 2021

I wish every practitioner in the field would read Harchol-Balter's Performance Modeling and Design of Computer Systems.

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