Breaking Performance Silos
My post Breaking Performance Silos was published by Speed Awareness Month.
Performance-Related Books
Here is my updated list of performance-related books. Books are grouped into a few categories just for convenience – some books fit …
Performance vs. Scalability
After attending Sergey Chernyshev’s (@sergeyche) Scalability vs. Performance presentation at NY Web Performance Meetup and reading Scalability: it’s the question that drives …
APM, Analytics, and Industry Trends
Just read Gartner Q&A: Analytics vs. APM with Will Cappelli, Gartner Research VP in Enterprise Management, part one, part two, and part …
Performance Engineering: Historical View
It is interesting to look how handling performance changed with time. Probably performance went beyond single-user profiling when mainframes started to support …
Why do I believe that everybody interested in performance should come to CMG’12?
CMG’12 is an annual conference organized by Computer Management Group – a volunteer organization of professionals specialized in performance, capacity, and IT …
Two Main Challenges of Performance Modeling and System Sizing
Reading about performance modeling / simulation and system sizing, you often see two completely opposite views of the subject. Either authors describe …
CMG’12 Call for Papers and Workshops – The Best Independent Performance and Capacity Conference
The Computer Measurement Group (CMG) calls for papers and presentations for CMG’s 38th International Conference to be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, …
Load Testing: Its Present and Future
Recent trends of agile development, DevOps, Web and Social Media sites somewhat question importance of load testing. Some (not many) openly saying …
Performance Dimension of Information Technology
There are no standards on titles and skill sets related to performance dimension of IT. I decided to put together how I …