Posts by Guido Imperiale
Fine Performance Metrics and Spans
- 23 August 2023
While it’s trivial to measure the end-to-end runtime of a Dask workload, the next logical step - breaking down this time to understand if it could be faster - has historically been a much more arduous task that required a lot of intuition and legwork, for novice and expert users alike. We wanted to change that.
Performance testing at Coiled
- 05 May 2023
At Coiled we develop Dask and automatically deploy it to large clusters of cloud workers (sometimes 1000+ EC2 instances at once!). In order to avoid surprises when we publish a new release, Dask needs to be covered by a comprehensive battery of tests — both for functionality and performance.
