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Architecting for performance: What is performance?

July 23rd, 2008 No Comments

Have a look at this video clip before we get into the concept of understanding performance.
Video clip:

Fiat Bravo vs. Ferrari 550 Maranello vs. Ferrari F1
The three cars in this video are clearly very different. For a formula one car the objective is easy to define. “Get around the track as fast as possible while [...]

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Enterprise IT Architecture Conference

July 18th, 2008 No Comments

I will be speaking at an Enterprise IT Architecture Conference on the 28th and 29th of July 2008.
Attached are my Presentation Notes that I will talk to on the topic of Architecting for Performance and IT Asset Management
Asset-management-practices
Performance
The videos used in the Performance Presentation are:
Fiat vs Ferrari F550 vs Ferrari F1
F1 Safety Focus - Telemetry
Alonso [...]

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The formula for Systems Monitoring

July 14th, 2007 1 Comment

In Formula 1 racing, monitoring and management are designed in from the beginning. All of the teams know they cannot be competitive without it and they are certain that they would not be competitive if they ignored the information provided by their monitoring systems.
In business we tend to leave the monitoring of systems as [...]

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Avoiding Clutter in Systems Management

January 12th, 2007 No Comments

Software Factories: Part 2 will be coming along on Monday, but for now a change of topic onto Systems Management

Out-of-the Box Systems Management Tools
There are numerous systems Management tools out there and a lot of corporates own a lot of diverse instances of these. Each one has its place in the market and plays [...]

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