Thinking Methodically about Performance.

The article focuses on the complexity of systems-performance analysis and discusses methods for analyzing the computer network and operating system performance. The article discusses the blame-someone-else anti-method and the streetlight anti-method which avoid or delay the investigation of performa...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 56; no. 2; pp. 45 - 52
Main Author: GREGG, BRENDAN
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Feb2013
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