The Pith of Performance

Possibly pithy insights into computer performance analysis and capacity planning based on the Guerrilla series of books and training classes provided by Performance Dynamics Company.

Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Resolving the Dirac-Sommerfeld Paradox via the Path to Quantum Computers

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Upcoming online presentation . This topic goes back to my M.Sc. thesis, when my supervisor, Prof. Christie Eliezer (2nd from left in the ph...
Monday, June 24, 2024

Extended Microbenchmarks for Modern Disk Drives

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I learnt about this interesting blog post entitled, "Discovering Hard Disk Physical Geometry through Microbenchmarking" by Henry...
Tuesday, April 20, 2021

PDQ Online Workshop, May 17-21, 2021

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PDQ (Pretty Damn Quick) is a free, open source, performance analyzer available from the Performance Dynamics web site . All modern computer...
Thursday, November 26, 2020

PDQ 7.0 is Not a Turkey

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Giving Thanks for the release of PDQ 7.0 , after a 5-year drought, and just in time for the PDQW workshop next week. New Featues ...
Sunday, November 8, 2020

PDQ Online Workshop, Nov 30-Dec 5, 2020

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PDQ (Pretty Damn Quick) is a queueing graph performance analyzer that comes as: free open source software package with an online user ...
Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Converting Between Human Time and Absolute Time in the Shell

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This is really more of a note-to-self but it may also be useful for other readers. Converting between various time zones, including UTC tim...
Monday, June 3, 2019

Book Review: How to Build a Performance Testing Stack From Scratch

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Writing a technical book is a difficult undertaking. As a technical author myself, I know that writing well is both arduous and tedious. The...
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