The Pith of Performance

Hadoop is hot, not because it necessarily represents cutting edge technology, but because it's being rapidly adopted by more and more co...

This question came up in a (members only) Linkedin discussion group: Often found a misconception about these terms. I'm sure this must...

Finally! We have a new location for our Guerrilla training classes in Pleasanton, California: Sheraton Four Points . We had some complain...

On November 9th I'll be presenting a full-day tutorial on performance analysis and capacity planning at the USENIX Large Scale System A...

Multicore processors were introduced to an unsuspecting marketplace more than a decade ago, but really became mainstream circa 2005. Multico...

Little's law appears in various guises in performance analysis. It was known to Agner Erlang (the father of queueing theory) in 1909 to...

As companies embrace continuous integration (CI) and fast release cycles, a serious problem has emerged in the development pipeline: Conven...