Bottlenecks are the parts of the system that limit performance. The system is made up of multiple parts that can run in parallel, for example the disk can be doing disk IO at the same time as the CPU is running some code, but when the system is at its maximum throughput then one of [...]
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MarkJ’s Rules of Good Software Performance
April 21, 2008 – 12:21 am
To get good performance from your software applications, developers, architects, and project managers need to follow MarkJ’s Rules of Good Software Performance:
1) Measure first and optimize second - find bottlenecks , ie don’t guess where a performance problem might be before you have one, find the slow part of the system through testing and make [...]