The Pith of Performance

Seats are still available for the final Guerrilla Boot Camp (GBoot) and Guerrilla Capacity Planning (GCaP) classes for 2011 at the Ea...

How much data do you need to retain for meaningful capacity planning and performance analysis purposes? Sounds like one of those " how ...

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...