Little's Law - Applications

Applications

Software-performance testers have used Little's law to ensure that the observed performance results are not due to bottlenecks imposed by the testing apparatus. See:

  • Software Infrastructure Bottlenecks in J2EE by Deepak Goel
  • Benchmarking Blunders and Things That Go Bump in the Night by Neil Gunther

Other applications include staffing emergency departments in hospitals.

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