diff --git a/documents/Welcome-To-The-Jungle.md b/documents/Welcome-To-The-Jungle.md index f19f0ad6..9979a80a 100644 --- a/documents/Welcome-To-The-Jungle.md +++ b/documents/Welcome-To-The-Jungle.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -Microbenchmarks are great at measuring performance "in the small"; for example, measuring the performance of individual methods. But good results do not necessarily translate into macro-scale performance. Real world access patterns and demand loads often run into deeper, systemic, architectural design issues that cannot be discerned at the micro level. +Microbenchmarks are great at measuring performance "in the small"; for example, measuring the performance of individual methods. But good results do not necessarily translate into macro-scale performance. Real world access patterns and demand loads often run into deeper, systemic, architectural design issues that cannot be discerned at the micro level.

HikariCP has over 1 million users, so from time to time we are approached with challenges encountered "in the wild". Recently, one such challenge led to a deeper investigation: ***Spike Demand***.