The Pith of Performance

If you do a Google search using keywords like: performance, bottleneck, analysis , you get quite a bewildering list of responses, and none o...

In the recent GDAT class , we covered machine learning (ML) applied to performance data analysis and particularly the application of so-call...

You might not have noticed, but queues have been in the news a lot lately. Not from the standpoint of computer performance but people per...

In a couple of recent blog posts about generating exponential loads and why that is important for load testing and performance testing, it...

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 ...