Friday, September 10, 2010

Do surrogates really suck?

Do Surrogates really suck in performance profiling?

I was going through an article on Performance of applications by a noted
Oracle expert where it mentioned that surrogates suck when it

comes to profiling applications for response time. Let me make it very
clear that i dont dispute the person here but to drive a point that
While response time is ideally the best to measure and understand the
profile of an application/process it may not always be possible to do
that considering overheads. In such cases a careful choice of the
surrogate measure depending on the technology should help in
understanding the profile. So the answer is yes and no.

For me manytimes the thoughts and ideas which i bring in from the
various fields of exposure help me in understanding the performance of a
system or even better/cleaner ways.

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