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The Pith of Performance

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The Pith of Performance is a personal blog at perfdynamics.blogspot.com about systems and data. Since 2008, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Modelling the mythical man-month with the universal scalability law”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-08, and you can follow it by feed.

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8HN people?
2008–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2008

Possibly pithy insights into computer performance analysis and capacity planning based on the Guerrilla series of books and training classes provided by <a href="http://www.perfdynam

Most-linked posts?

  1. Modelling the mythical man-month with the universal scalability law
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-17

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Amazon and Google Discover Erlang (IMDB is switching from Perl to Erlang) as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted Bandwidth vs. Latency – The World is Curved (2010) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted GitHub Growth Appears Scale Free as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Laplace the Bayesianista, and the Mass of Saturn as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Modeling the Mythical Man-Month as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted A Little Triplet (2014) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Modelling the mythical man-month with the universal scalability law as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Fundamental Performance Metrics as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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