The Pith of Performance

I will be at the CMG Greater Atlanta Spring conference on April 27, 2011. I was asked to cover something for both veterans and newcomers ...

The road to hell is paved with good intentions During a recent exchange with a potential PDQ user , that occurred as a sequence of blog com...

Thanks to all those who attended my presentation and offered me their compliments afterwards. It was a bit rushed and went a bit wobbly whe...

It's that time of year again so, here I am in Dallas to present "Brooks, Cooks, and Response Time Scalability," where I will ...

As discussed in Chapter 4 of my GCaP book , Amdahl's law is defined by a single parameter called the serial fraction , denoted by the ...

A common fallacy is to view all idle CPU cycles as wasted server capacity. It's not unusual for management and various bean-counters to ...

The Guerrilla training schedule for 2011 has now been finalized. Book early, book often!