Throughput Performance: Comparing Apples to Apples

Cross-posting from my RTI blog:

If you’re serious about the performance of your distributed system, you probably read with interest the performance claims made by network middleware vendors. And if you’re a network middleware vendor, you’ve probably published your share of performance claims. (RTI has comprehensive performance numbers available for both our DDS and JMS APIs.) But in order to know which claims are meaningful — and more importantly, which are useful to you — it’s important to understand what you’re reading. In the words on one of my coworkers, “many apples are compared to rhinoceroses.”

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