Mario Jauvin's blog

Hi, just a note to tell you that I will be presenting the paper "Seeing it all at once with Barry" in Toronto on April 16. This is the visualization paper which Neil and I wrote and presented at CMG in San Diego. I look forward to redoing it with some new visuals and hopefully will report back in a timely manner. Till later.

What happened in San Diego. Well, a lot apart from the fact that I was fortunate enough to have two distinguished speakers speak for the network track, namely Peter Sevcik from Netforecast, a world renowned consultant that knows his stuff and whose opinions are often against the current but proven to be correct after. His pet peeve these days is the application performance index or APDEX (see Apdex Alliance ). My good friend Neil Gunther ( Neil's blog ) and I presented a new visualization for the Apdex index which we believe has a lot of potential. The other distinguished speaker is Raj Jain , a well known academic whose performance book The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis: Techniques for Experimental Design, Measurement, Simulation, and Modeling (Hardcover) has been the bible for many old timer performance analyst. Raj current interest is in participating in the design of the Internet 3.0 (I don't know where I was but I don't recall Internet 2.0 but heck,...