The Pith of Performance

Back in early March, when I was at the Hotsos Symposium on Oracle performance, I happened to end up sitting next to Alain C. at lunch. He ...

As a consequence of looking into a question on the GCaP google group about the telecom performance metric known as the busy hour , I came a...

Pretty Damn Quick (PDQ) performs a mean value analysis of queueing network models : mean values in; mean values out. By mean, I mean statis...

Enrollments are still open for the Level III Guerrilla Data Analysis Techniques class to be held during the week May 6—10. Early-bird disc...

In 1929, the astronomer Edwin Hubble published the following scatterplot based on his most recent astronomical measurements. Figure 1. E...

The following slides constitute evolving notes made in response to remarks that arose during the Monitorama Conference in Boston MA, March ...

Here is my Keynote presentation that opened the first Monitorama conference and hackathon in Cambridge MA yesterday: Comments f...