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.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

The Valley Ain't What It Used To Be

Important interview in the SF Chron with hi-tech maven, Judy Estrin , where she warns about lagging innovation in the Si Valley and the US...

Applying the USL Model to Multivalued Data

A reader was having trouble applying the USL model to his data and asked me to take a look at it. I can't discuss his data because it...

Saturday, August 23, 2008

It's the PLANNING, Stupid!

The phrase "It's the ECONOMY, stupid!" helped boost Bill Clinton's election prospects in 1992. In 1999, when eBay.com wa...

Thursday, August 21, 2008

GCaP Book Availability

Guerrilla graduate, Greg Rogers, alerted me to the fact that Amazon.com is showing my GCaP book as being "Temporarily out of stock...

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Scalability Theorems Paper Now Available

As promised , my paper containing the proofs that the universal scalability law is equivalent to the synchronous throughput bound of a mach...

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

How to Recover the Missing X(1) for the USL Scalability Model

When it comes to assessing application scalability, controlled measurements of the type that can be obtained with tools like Grinder or Loa...

Friday, July 18, 2008

Mr. Amdahl Calls the Repairman

Back in January, I reported that my Universal Scalability Law (USL) had been proven to be equivalent to the synchronous throughput of the ...

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