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Articles tagged with performance

Parallelizing the Berkowitz Algorithm with Python

Overview

During academic research I had the opportunity to get familiar with and implement the Samuelson–Berkowitz algorithm for computing the characteristic polynomial of a square matrix whose entries may be elements of any unital commutative ring. The algorithm is division-free, thus may be applied to a wider range of …

Profiling web endpoints for fun and profit

Overview

At VXSoft we treat performance as a feature and try to address issues related to it with extreme seriousness. Our products are mainly web applications, thus affected by all performance (e.g. traffic spikes, poorly written code, database performance) and security issues (OWASP top ten) of general web applications …