Using Little’s Law to Measure System Performance

A queueing system can be described as the flow of items through a queue. In a queueing system, items arrive at some rate to the system and join one or more queues inside the system. These items receive some kind of service, and when the work is done, they depart the system. A simple queueing system Little’s Law is a pretty simple model of queueing systems. $$ L=\lambda W $$...

November 29, 2019 · 5 min · Kevin Sookocheff

Integrating Applications

A big portion of any software engineering revolves around integrating multiple, disparate applications into a cohesive and functional whole. These apps may be built in house or third-party, or they may run on your network or distributed geographically, or they may be microservices designed to integrate. In any of these cases, you have several different options for integration, each with pros and cons. The integration patterns listed here are ordered by least to most sophisticated, but also by least to most complex....

September 25, 2016 · 3 min · Kevin Sookocheff