The Pith of Performance

Here, "killer" doesn't necessarily mean just first or just best implementation, but rather it was also considered meritorious ...

As a consequence of winning the A.A. Michelson Award at CMG'08 , I was interviewed for CMG MeasureIT e-zine. The second installment ap...

Surprise, surprise! After the big wind-up, it turned out that WolframAlpha wasn't really ready for prime time. In an LA Times interview...

A real utility, like water, gas and POTS, implies that it's always there , with only very rare and explainable exceptions. Which reminds...

Recently, several performance engineers, who have been applying my universal scalability law (USL) to their throughput measurements, report...

Sick of hearing about " swine flu "? Good, then read this blog instead. It strikes me that there are more than the usual uncanny p...

The other day, I came across a blog post entitled "Server utilization: Joel on queuing" , so naturally I had to stop and take a sq...