The Pith of Performance

I was so impressed with Velocity 2009, I really wanted to present something at Velocity 2010. Thread-limited scalability of memcached Wo...

Here is a scatter plot with the coordinate labels deliberately omitted. Figure 1. Do you see any trends? How would you model these data?...

This is the week. Starts tomorrow and it's sold out! Click on the image for details Shanti and I will be presenting at 1300 on Thurs...

Popping Part III off the stack—where I ended up unexpectedly discovering that the primes and primlist functions are broken in the schoolm...

Here we are in Part III. Wait!? What happened to Parts I and II? Well, I started to write an article about Amdahl's law, parallelism and...

Guerrill- R , get it? Register now for the Guerrilla Data Analysis Techniques (GDAT) class to be held during the week of August 9-13, 2010....

Neal Richter sent me the following tweet Unfortunately, the paper ("Optimal staffing policy for queuing systems with cyclic demands,...