Protocols and Sympathy with Martin Thompson

Making performance changes is about working smoothly with hardware AND with people.

• Martin’s talk on protocols from J on the Beach
• Mechanical sympathy:
  • https://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/2011/07/why-mechanical-sympathy.html
  • https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mechanical-sympathy
  • https://dzone.com/articles/mechanical-sympathy
• Universal Scalability Law, Queuing theory, Little’s Law
  • http://www.perfdynamics.com/Manifesto/USLscalability.html
  • https://blog.acolyer.org/2015/04/29/applying-the-universal-scalability-law-to-organisations/
  • https://www.infoq.com/presentations/little-usl-scalability-performance/
  • http://perfdynamics.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-little-triplet.html
  • http://www.vissinc.com/2012/09/07/littles-law-isnt-it-a-linear-relationship/
  • https://medium.com/@__bbak/dont-be-fooled-by-littles-law-18e18dba3717
• Florence Nightingale and Pie Charts
• Dijkstra on the radical novelty of software
• Image credit: Ylva, Ebba, and Kashti Grimm

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