• Introduction to Transactional (TPC-C) Testing for all Databases (HammerDB)
• A Nine year study of filesystem and storage benchmarking
  • One of a few evergreen papers on storage/filesystem performance testing.

Linux

• Linux Multi-queue paper (Axboe et al)

Virtualization

The seminal Xen Hypervisor paper Introduced the idea of “para virtualization”.

• Xen and the Art of Virtualization – 2003

Performance Engineering

Change point detection

How to identify real performance regressions in the face of noise.

• The Use of Change Point Detection to Identify Software Performance Regressions in a Continuous Integration System – 2020
• Video discussion of the paper by David Daly – YouTube

USL

• Forecasting MySQL Scalability with the Universal Scalability Law – 2010