The Pith of Performance

Possibly pithy insights into computer performance analysis and capacity planning based on the Guerrilla series of books and training classes provided by Performance Dynamics Company.

Friday, September 28, 2007

SOA Scalability and Steady-State

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Guerrilla alumnus Peter Lauterbach just brought to my attention an article in SOA World entitled "Load Testing Web Services" . I ...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Best Practices Are An Admission of Failure

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Six Sigma: Quite a list. ITIL : Best Practice is defined as "good working practice developed through consensus that helps organizati...
Sunday, September 23, 2007

Black Swans, Instantons, Hedge Funds and Network Collapse

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On my flight to Europe last July, I read The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by N. Taleb. Unfortunately, I found the book i...
Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Virtualization Rootkit Wars

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VMM malware is another side-effect of creating illusions (See my previous blog entry on the danger of illusions). It turns out that still ...
Monday, September 17, 2007

MVA, Upgrades, and Other Visitations Upon PDQ

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Guerrilla alumnus Sudarsan Kannan asks: "I'm trying to understand concepts behind performance modeling (analytical modeling) bas...
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Why Doesn't PDQ Have a GUI?

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Recently I was asked if I planned to create a GUI (Graphical User Interface) for PDQ. I've thought a lot about this over the years and m...
Sunday, September 16, 2007

Darwin’s Dictum and Performance Monitoring

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Darwin’s Dictum: "All observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service." (Source: Scientific American m...
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