[I’m moving some my more interesting old blogs from web archive to someplace they can actually be found. Keep in mind these were written a lot time ago.] 08/22/2008 I had to explain this a little while ago and I wrote up something that I thought was generally interesting. …

[This bit of parody is often requested so I’m reposting it] Originally posted Thursday, June 09, 2005 2:57 PM ; recovered from the Wayback Machine Sometimes people ask me why my talks tend to teach the basics about performance and not Really Scary Performance Stuff (TM). My answer is actually…

Last week Charity Majors wrote a series of tweets about testing software. The general thesis being: you can easily hit diminishing returns in testing, and people often over-invest there are so many combinations it’s just not at all feasible to prevent all your problems with testing therefore, you should really…

[I’m moving some my more interesting old blogs from web archive to someplace they can actually be found. Keep in mind these were written a lot time ago.] 12/12/2003 I wrote this article back in July [of 2003] and it ended up being the basis of this video (scroll to…

[I’m moving some my more interesting old blogs from web archive to someplace they can actually be found. Keep in mind these were written a lot time ago.] 12/04/2003 This particular problem (I call it mid-life-crisis) seems to come up fairly often so I thought I’d write up some general…

[I’m moving some my more interesting old blogs from web archive to someplace they can actually be found. Keep in mind these were written a lot time ago.] 02/17/2004 Once again I’ll begin by saying that I’m simplifying the below in the interest of not writing a novel, so please…

[I’m moving some my more interesting old blogs from web archive to someplace they can actually be found. Keep in mind these were written a lot time ago.] 03/01/2005 Modern processors run at incredibly high clock rates and can often execute multiple instructions concurrently. When things are going perfectly these…

[I’m moving some my more interesting old blogs from web archive to someplace they can actually be found. Keep in mind these were written a lot time ago.] 03/21/2005 Earlier today someone suggested that I read this entry from Cyrus. As a performance guy people basically expect me to veto…

[I’m moving some my more interesting old blogs from web archive to someplace they can actually be found. Keep in mind these were written a lot time ago.] 04/06/2005 I’m going to have a little bit of fun with this one so bear with me. :) Sometimes I talk to…