Whodunit: Transactional profiling for multi-tier applications

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 17-30

  Chanda, Anupam ^a   Cox, Alan L ^a   Zwaenepoel, Willy ^b  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Distribution; Profiling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; SERVERS; WEBSITES; INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS; PROXY CACHES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

MULTI-TIER APPLICATION; PROFILING;

MULTIMEDIA SERVICES; MESSAGE PASSING;

CONCURRENT TRANSACTIONS; FLOWTHROUGH; GENERAL SOLUTIONS; INTERPROCESS COMMUNICATION; MULTI-TIER APPLICATIONS; NOVEL ALGORITHM; PERFORMANCE DEBUGGING; SHARED MEMORIES; TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES; WEB SERVERS; WEB-PROXY CACHES;

EID: 34548031626     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1272996.1273001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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