The Pith of Performance

In 2010, I presented my universal scalability law ( USL ) at the SURGE conference . I came away with the impression that nobody really unde...

From time to time, at the Hotsos conferences on Oracle performance, I've heard the phrase, "battle against any guess" (BAAG)...

This question arose while addressing Comments on a previous blog post about exponentially distributed delays. One of my ongoing complaints ...

Bookings are open for both Guerrilla Boot Camp (GBoot) and Guerrilla Capacity Planning (GCaP) classes in May 2012 at the Early Bird rate...

So says the Non-Volatile Systems Lab at UC San Diego. The claim is, in order to achieve higher densities, flash manufacturers must sacrific...

The following is a slightly edited version of my response to a Discussion on the Linkedin CPPE group , which is accessible to Members Only...

Time Bandits: How to Analyze Fractal Query Times Tues, March 6, 2012 @ 2:15 pm That's the title of my presentation at this y...