Designing for Your Workload: Don't Wait Until the Last Minute

posted by  winsql (16)  20 months ago (feeds.penton.com)

Describing performance tuning and scalability problems and concepts in a real-world context can help novice or intermediate IT professionals avoid similar mistakes in the future. I learned that lesson more than a decade ago, and it has served me well over the years as I've tried to assist my tuning customers. So I was especially interested when I saw the MSN article, "Last-minute files swamp tax servers," which describes a massive slowdown experienced by Intuit's TurboTax onli