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Performance Modeling and Design of Computer Systems: Queueing Theory in Action
by Mor Harchol-Balter
Description: Performance Modeling and Design of Computer Systems: Queueing Theory in Action presents the application of queueing theory to address design challenges in computer systems. It focuses on using mathematical models to analyze system performance
ISBN: 1107027500
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kqr · 2025-04-10 · Original thread
Queueing theory is one of my favourite secret superweapons. You can use it to back-of-the-napkin solutions out of feasibility much quicker than it'd take to simulate.

I warmly recommend Harchol-Balter: https://www.amazon.com/Performance-Modeling-Design-Computer-... It is an eminintly practical book which is written in terms of computers, goes beyond the basic M/M/1 but without being overbearing.

(The other secret superpower is statistical process control.)

colechristensen · 2019-07-02 · Original thread
Performance Modeling and Design of Computer Systems: Queueing Theory in Action https://www.amazon.com/dp/1107027500
rgoldste · 2019-06-15 · Original thread
To anyone who finds these models interesting and wants to learn a lot more - I’d highly recommend Mor Harchol-Balter’s textbook: https://www.amazon.com/Performance-Modeling-Design-Computer-... (She is currently a professor at Carnegie Mellon).