Lightning Talk: Can you Trust that Benchmark?

Benchmarking is a way of uncovering what best possible performance is and how can be achieved. It helps understand bottlenecks and real limitations of your system. Optimizing benchmark is not an easy …

Benchmarking is a way of uncovering what best possible performance is and how can be achieved. It helps understand bottlenecks and real limitations of your system. Optimizing benchmark is not an easy job. Did you ever ask yourself how do you know that benchmark numbers are correct? How do you validate your benchmark? What if you are measuring the wrong thing? It’s important to have those answers as data from benchmark have a huge impact on purchasing and strategic decisions.In this talk, Agata will walk you through an explanation of the benchmarking process, why is it so important to validate your data. She will also provide examples of bad optimization, and how to avoid common pitfalls.