Benchmarketing fallacies: the 100 shades of truth by Francesco Nigro

Wouldn’t it be nice if while searching on the Internet for the latest performance results of our beloved frameworks, we could trust whatever is written and call it a day? In this session we’ll examine a few different poorly written benchmarks, dissecting and dismantling them down to the last bit, while also demonstrating few psychological tricks used to distract the user's focus from what’s actually important. We will show you how to uncover the lies, damn lies behind articles and benchmark results, with skeptical pragmatism and methodologies borrowed from the performance engineering field and philosophy.. You should come away from this session with a better understanding of the tools to reveal the weak points of a benchmark or, conversely, to convince users of some new benchmarking lie 👿