Monday, October 8, 2007

scalability or performance

If there is one concept that appears to cross many fields, its performance. Think about it: automotive, sports, medicine, or software development. In each field, we are always trying to squeeze that one last drop.

One thing that is interesting, is that in other fields it is easy to measure performance. In the software development field, it seems as if many developers don't know the different between performance or scalability. Oftentimes they'll punt to the hardware folks to deliver faster machines to achieve greater 'performance' if you will.

I would like to challenge my fellow peers to tackle a minor concept: predictive performance. Predictive performance is the concept of measurable performance under guided environmental conditions. Achieving predictive performance allows you to set a baseline under which to develop under.

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