In this paper we present an introductory analysis of throughput scalability for update intensive workloads (such as measured by the TPC-C or TPC-W benchmarks) and how that scaling is limited by serialization effects in the software-hardware combination that comprises any platform.

TeamQuest (now Vityl Capacity Management) provides unintrusive mechanisms for instrumenting applications and analyzing application performance. Neil Gunther describes how to use those mechanisms.

This guide explains how service oriented architecture (SOA) requires unique capacity management considerations for your IT organization.