Hotsos 2011: Brooks, Cooks, Delay and This Just In ...

Thanks to all those who attended my presentation and offered me their compliments afterwards. It was a bit rushed and went a bit wobbly when it came to the description of the repairman queueing model (the Apple Genius Bar), but I knew that might happen going in. Despite my best efforts to muddle it at times, it seems people were able to take away a coherent (pun!) message. That was also evident from the excellent audience questions, as well as some of the tweets I've seen. Thank you.

Here is the latest on the late-breaking news that I referred to at the end of my talk:

1. Baron Schwartz: Is VoltDB really as scalable as they claim?
   
   • Applies the USL model very nicely
     
   • Quantifies scalabiity of an open-source RDBMS
     
   • Not response time analysis (yet)
     
   • Not Oracle
     
2. Dave Abercrombie: Response time analysis based on AWR data
   
   • Definitely Oracle
     
   • Definitely response-time analysis
     
   • Not USL analysis (yet)
     
3. Gerwin Hendriksen: GAPP Improvements: a Method to Diagnose and Predict
   Performance in Complex Architectures
   
   • Definitely Oracle + ODM
     
   • Definitely response-time analysis
     
   • Not USL analysis (yet)
     
   • See my review
     

Details at 12 ... Hotsos 2012, hopefully.

And thanks to Cary for inviting me this year.