Scaling for E-Business

2.5. Building a CBMG

We describe in this section the approaches that can be followed to build the static portion of a CBMG. The dynamic portion is obtained as part of a workload characterization process, as described in Chapter 11.

To determine the static portion of the CBMG, the following steps should be followed.

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Determine the set of functions provided to the customers of the e-commerce site. While some of the functions (e.g., Search, Login) may be found in most e-commerce sites, there are functions that are characteristic of certain e-commerce sites or of specific types of e-commerce sites. Table 2.2 gives some examples of functions common to most sites and functions characteristic of types of e-commerce sites. The first part of the table ...