GCaP Class Highlights

It was sunny outside but we ended up staying in the shade for better lighting balance. Other grads had to catch earlier flights home by the time this shot was taken.

Some graduates of the May 2010 GCaP class. Photo courtesy Manu M.
Here are some of the interesting topics that popped up in class discussions this week:

• How to emulate Internet traffic with load test tools like LoadRunner
• Contol Groups (cgroups) for fair-share resource allocation in Linux containers—not to be confused with CFS (completely fair scheduler)
• Demo of JXinsight by the tool architect (and now Guerrilla graduate) William Louth
• DTrace for Solaris and Mac OS X
• Instruments in Mac OS X (Leopard and higher)
• The performance and capacity implications of cloud computing
• How to get started doing GCaP with VAM: Visualize, Analyze, Modelize
• httperf web workload generator

This is why you too should consider attending an upcoming Guerrilla class.