The Pith of Performance

A nice update to my previous posts about the Intel Penryn microprocessor: Moore at 45 nm More on Penryn More on Moore appears on a D...

In 1948, the collected papers of Agner Erlang (AKA the father of queueing theory) were translated from the original Danish and published in...

The October 2007 Linux Magazine (no. 10, issue 83, p. 62) is carrying the English version of my original German article about converting...

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

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

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...

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