Updating the Content of Performance Analysis Textbooks
Giuseppe Serazzi · ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review · 2022
Fifty years have passed since Performance Evaluation (PE) was recognized as a discipline in its own right even if closely linked to computer science. In this period, computer systems, networks, applications and services have changed dramatically. Modern systems are very complex, current workloads consist of hundreds of thousands requests, and user expectations for performance become even more stringent. The computer engineering curricula for undergrad/graduate students and the courses taught in universities are very different from those of a few years ago. With such a completely new scenario, the time has come to analyze the situation in order to identify the teaching techniques of performance analysis in university courses that are best suited to today's world.