The Pith of Performance

No doubt you've heard about the tyranny of the 9s in reference to computer system availability. You're probably also familiar with ...

Last week, in the GDAT class , we were discussing performance visualization tools as requiring a good impedance match between the digital c...

As usual, the Guerrilla Data Analysis Techniques (GDAT) class was a total blast. Motivated students always guarantee that. It would really ...

I'm in the process of putting together some slides on how to apply Quantile-Quantile plots to performance data. Q-Q plots are a handy t...

In a previous post , I explained why \begin{equation} R_m \neq \dfrac{R_1}{m} \label{eqn:badest} \end{equation} and therefore doesn't wo...

Guerrilla alumnus Paul P. has a penchant for sending me interesting things, and recently he sent me a piece on Little's law . Remarkably...

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