BENCHMARKING "Hello, World!"
As software moves off the desktop and into data centers, and cell phones use server requests as the other half of apps, the observation tools for large-scale distributed transaction systems are not keeping up with the complexity of the environment. Exploring a simpler environment can help expose some of the problems that confront today's tool users and tool builders. There is a lot to be learned from careful observation of a program and its complete surrounding context, even one as trivial as "Hello, World!".
Contact: Jennifer Schmidt