It has been six years since I started working on performance testing. Applications I have worked on include an electronic health records application used by more than two hundred thousand physicians nationwide and a backend application that processes millions of lab orders, results, and other messages daily. High availability, high reliability, and high performance are critical for both applications due to their time-sensitive nature. From knowing very little to becoming the leading engineer of a…

Previously, I reported on Intel’s low power, 14nm Core M mobile processor, formerly known by its architecture code name, “Broadwell.” I came away impressed with my first look at what Intel has done both at the silicon and platform architecture level. In a nutshell, Intel has succeeded at taking their previous generation notebook architecture, and while beefing up graphics processing, compute and cache resources, along with a few other tweaks, they’ve brought power consumption down to the 4.5 Watt range, which…