The Pith of Performance

Update of Thursday, August 17, 2017: It's looks like we can chalk up another one for the scale-free model (described below) as Github ...

Our paper entitled, How to Emulate Web Traffic Using Standard Load Testing Tools (PDF) is now available online and will be presented at the...

During the Guerrilla Data Analysis class last week, alumnus Jeff P. came up with this novel mnemonic device for remembering all three forms...

This is a guest post by performance modeling enthusiast, Mohit Chawla, who brought the following very interesting example to my attention....

As I show in my Perl::PDQ book , the residence time at an M/M/1 queue is trivial to derive and (unlike most queueing theory texts) does not...

After a six month hiatus working on a major consulting gig, Guerrilla training classes are back in business with the three classic courses:...

The primary goal for this release is to make PDQ acceptable for uploading to CRAN . This is a non-trivial exercise because there is some le...