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Little’s Law & My Sandwich

This morning, while having breakfast (nice cup of coffee and a sandwich), it came to my mind the queueing theory (probably because yesterday, while driving to Valencia, I remembered one of the first chapters of Numb3rs, when Charlie uses this theory to explain a car accident). Summarising, Little’s Law JUST …

No matter…

…why my system gets too fast!!! NO VISITS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   Let’s take a look to an interesting application of "queueing theory" explaining the basic model and its use on calculating the slope of tardiness for a website (is yours crashing?).   Why Application Servers Crash and How to Avoid It   …

More on Queues

nPlenty of sorrow for failling to my word. I should’ve written this post yesterday, but “all my troubles seem so far away” that I slept on Sunday. Brazilian queue, let’s see. The good thing there is they respect pregnants and senior citizens. I’m not saying they don’t do in Great …

Brazilian Queue

Loads of people will tell you there’s no such a Brazilian Queue, someone would say it’s a crowd!. I think after almost one year in this country I should be able to give an educated answer (actually a factual one since I’ve been suffering it a lot, really!). The real …