Archive of posts tagged: Methodology
A Checklist Manifesto for Empirical Evaluation: A Preemptive Strike Against a Replication Crisis in Computer Science
In 2009, Dr. Atul Gawande, a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, published The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, describing his experience using checklists to reduce the risk of errors. Gawande observed that a number of serious...
Three Other Models of Computer System Performance: Part 2
With two blog posts, we argue for more use of simple models beyond Amdahl’s Law. Part 1 previously discussed Bottleneck Analysis and Little’s Law, while this post (Part 2) presents the M/M/1 Queue.
Three Other Models of Computer System Performance: Part 1
With two blog posts, we argue for more use of simple models beyond Amdahl’s Law. This Part 1 discusses Bottleneck Analysis and Little’s Law, while Part 2 presents the M/M/1 Queue. Computer systems, from the Internet-of-Things devices to datacenters, are complex and...
When to Prototype? When to Simulate?
In this blog article we touch the subject of architectural evaluation methodology. We took the effort to interview some experts and collect opinions from experts on this subject. While everyone raises unique points, there seems to be some consensus.. The picture...Subscribe
