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Emre Kıcıman and Benjamin Livshits from Microsoft Research present some interesting data in their SOPS paper - AjaxScope: A Platform for Rem...

For quite a while my todo list has had an instruction to find and characterize the popularity of RSS vs ATOM . Which syndication format is m...

The eponymous Kode Vicious over at ACM's Queue magazine has an excellent rant on the value of measuring instead of assuming. I read it ...

Explicit Congestion Control ( ECN ) has had lots of papers written about it. It has also been in various stages of deployment for almost 10...

Earlier in my day, I ran across a book review for Computer Science Reconsidered: The Invocation Model of Process Expression . The premise o...

Continuing in the "what's the latency on my DSL connection" theme (see outbound DNS and incoming SMTP posts), we finally ge...

A little while back I posted about the incoming TCP handshake latencies on my boutique broadband mail server. In short, they were awful - 1...

I've admitted previously that I have a passion for characterization. When you really understand something you can be sure you are targe...

For the longest time, any proposed enhancements to TCP congestion control were measured against 2 criteria Is it more efficient in some sens...

Characterization fascinates me. Knowing what you are trying to solve in detail lets you focus on what is important. Sometimes what is import...