The Pith of Performance

Next Tuesday, August 7th , I'll be presenting at the Northern California CMG meeting * . My talk will be about Little's law and it...

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)...