The Beauty of Variance with James Pulley
with James Pulley
co-founder · PerfBytes with Mark Tomlinson
About this episode
Want to know how to see the beauty of variance in your performance engineering efforts? In this episode, James Pulley, co-founder of PerfBytes, shares why variance is essential to creating realistic performance testing scenarios. Discover all about standard deviation as a measurement of the spread of data within a system, how standard deviation reflects how resources are being used in the system, and how to implement standardized analytical methods.
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