Performance Dynamics Company

Does the LLM efficient-compute frontier represent new physics? — Instantons in the machine https://speakerdeck.com/drqz/does-the-efficient-compute-frontier-represent-new-physics

In the vein of: The cloud is the new mainframe and Charge-back is back, baby!
https://speakerdeck.com/drqz/how-to-scale-in-the-cloud-chargeback-is-back-baby


just launched 'Instance Explorer': a simple way to search & compare running instances (including forgotten ones) on AWS, Azure & GCP https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7394024965781762048/

💸 “Am I overpaying for this instance?” Definitely in the Top 10 most overheard comments in cloud engineering teams, right between “Who spun this up?” and “Do we still need this?”. Now there’s a… | Joe Hefferan 💸 “Am I overpaying for this instance?” Definitely in the Top 10 most overheard comments in cloud engineering teams, right between “Who spun this up?” and “Do we still need this?”. Now there’s a free tool to actually answer that - built by Datadog. We just launched Instance Explorer:...

Ordinary AI output requires extraordinary human verification. (Apologies to C. Sagan)

DR still in progress for AMZN.com itself ... 🧐

Productivity: If you want to be more productive, go to sleep.
https://www.perfdynamics.com/Manifesto/gcaprules.html .25

Some performance consequences often overlooked in redundancy plans
https://perfdynamics.blogspot.com/2014/03/performance-of-n1-redundancy.html

Out of The Queue Comes ... Amdahl’s Law! https://www.perfdynamics.com/Papers/amdsynq.pdf

A clue for remembering all THREE of Little's laws, due to Guerrilla grad Jeffery Pickett

See https://perfdynamics.blogspot.com/2016/10/a-clue-for-remembering-littles-law.html to find out the meaning of Q, L, U, and R, W, S.

RIP James Lovell, commander of Apollo 13 (played by Tom Hanks in the movie of the same name), has died at age 97.