The Pith of Performance

In chapter 4 of my Perl::PDQ book , "Linux Load Average—Take a Load Off" and Appendix B "A Short History of Buffers," I ...

The title of chapter 5 in my Guerrilla Capacity Planning book is, "Evaluating Scalability Parameters," and underneath it you'...

You know Bit Ly? Bruce Lee's distant cousin. I love Twitter, but it's not for everybody and I can understand why some people don...

Last week, there was a New York Times obituary for Alan Haberman, he being the person who ushered in the barcode . Notice that's usher ...

In the GCaP class , one of the homework exercises refers to a grocery store checkout where the customer arrival rate is 1 customer every 2 m...

The Guerrilla Data Analysis Techniques training course (GDAT) will be held during the week of August 8-12 this year. As usual, the focus w...

The video of my presentation at the Surge 2010 conference on scalability and performance has finally been posted. Since it doesn't see...