Web Platform Performance Analysis

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Web Platform Performance Analysis

• Final Design Presentation
• Team 4
• ECE 498B
• December 6, 2004

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Introduction

• Team Members
• Thiha Kyi Min
• Nipun Dahra
• Seok Kyu Lee
• Yousuf Al-Kaabi
• Team Advisor
• Dr. Salim Hariri
• Sponsor
• American Online (AOL)

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Design Process
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Project Overview

• Background
• AOL needs to change its web platform to match
  with the standard industry web platform.
• Motivation
• Reduce development and maintenance time and cost
• Design
• Evaluate different sets of web platform (O.S, web
  servers, databases, and web applications).
• Goal
• To know how the platform choice decisions are
  made.

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Design Specification

• OS
• Unix/Linux
• Application
• Accessible over HTTP Port 80
• Use a standard web services API (Application
  Programming Interface) such as REST, XML-RPC or
  SOAP
• Access to another web services API via HTTP
• Database access

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Design Elements

• Prototype Platform

Prototype application web shopping mall
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Research
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Research Results

• O.S Component Red Hat Linux
• Open Source
• Widely used for web servers
• Easy to update
• Good documentation
• Can cluster
• Web Server Component Apache
• Support all kinds of operating system
• The most popular web server
• Prototype Application Web Shopping Mall
• A lot of transactions between server and clients
• Fulfill specifications assigned

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Research Results

• Database Component
• MySQL
• Keep high performance during heavy traffic.
• Most common open-source database.
• More Application Support compared to PostgreSQL.
• Good Documentation / More Books
• PostgreSQL
• Open-source
• Has transactional role back
• Server Side Script PHP
• Easy to learn
• Widely used with MySQL

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Research Results

• Web service Access Protocol
• REST
• Simple interface
• Scalable
• 80 of Amazon Web Serivces API access
• Evolve from academic research
• XML-RPC
• Does not have as much industry support as SOAP
• SOAP
• More complicated
• Might offer more security features
• RESTful SOAP ?

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Hardware

• (4) server machines on the test bed
• (1) client machine

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Hardware Details
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Software Details
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Prototype Application
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Load Testing Software
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Load Test Results
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Peformance Report
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Scalability Report
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Capacity Report
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Recommendation

• Open Source Web Platform
• Red Hat Linux
• Apache Web Server
• MySQL Database / PHP Script
• REST web services access protocol
• ACID compliant database
• For critical data