PAY FOR PERFORMANCE: BEATING "BEST PRACTICES"

Best Practices for Software Performance Engineering

Performance—responsiveness and scalability—is a make-or-break quality for software. Software performance engineering (SPE) [Smith and Williams 2002], [Smith 1990] provides a systematic, quantitative approach to constructing software systems that meet performance objectives. With SPE, you detect problems early in development, and use quantitative methods to support cost-benefit analysis of hardw...

DRS Performance and Best Practices

VMware® Infrastructure 3 provides a set of distributed infrastructure services that make the entire IT environment more serviceable, available, and efficient. Working with VMware ESX 3, VMware VirtualCenter 2, and VMware VMotion, VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) dynamically allocates resources to enforce resource management policies while balancing resource usage across multiple ESX ...

Enterprise Java Performance: Best Practices

This paper discusses best practices for maximizing the performance of enterprise Java workloads. First, we introduce the importance of performance of enterprise Java applications. We then describe our top-down, datadriven, and closed-loop approach to characterize where the problems are. We examine the performance of the software/hardware stack, first from the system-level perspective (topology,...

Benchmarking Best Practices Performance Results

New product performance was measured in a number of ways in the study – see Exhibit 1. (Use these performance data to benchmark your business’s NPD performance versus the average and top performers.) We also identify a sub-set of Best Performing businesses, and focus on their practices: these are the “benchmark businesses” that one should strive to emulate. In this mini-report and subsequent re...

PI Best Practices: Sizing & Performance Tuning