Publications

Sharing Knowledge

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adhoc International participates to several communication intiatives and regularly publishes articles, white papers, conferences presentations, thesis and courses, etc.

In this section, you will find a selection of our main publications.

We are also the co-founder and active member of the CAPAF Forum, the reference information exchange community to share knowledge and experiences of all aspects regarding IT Performance.

 

The first APM Workgroup publication - a collaboration between the Berlin School of Economics and Law, ceCMG and adhoc International

Towards the Maturity Era of IT Performance

In the beginning, we had low-level system programming. Programs consisted of instructions directly accessing computing resources. Then, performance became a major concern to the program and system designers, especially because of the limited computing capacity available.
Later, when the first business-relevant systems appeared, IT performance concerns continued to be strongly related to the resource usage in terms of CPU, memory and I/O.  However, performance and tuning specialists became involved in design decisions as well as in development, with more structured and procedural programming languages.
The rapid evolution of computing hardware gave IT professionals huge opportunities in terms of resources and performance, while the business relevance of IT systems increased. A kind of an informal “convention” took place...

 

 

For further information or to order this publication, please do not hesitate to contact Stephanie Liebing at adhoc International!