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Agile Physics — The Math of Flow

Short, practical explanations of the mathematics behind flow, queues, utilization, parallel work, and cycle-time distributions.

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By Troy Magennis

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Amdahl's Law — Speedup in Parallel Systems

Understand the hard limit on improvement when only part of a system can be parallelized.

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The reference article below gives the formal definition and derivation of Amdahl's law.

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