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Rusty-Comms Performance Dashboard

A high-performance interactive web application for analyzing Inter-Process Communication (IPC) benchmark results with advanced visualizations and intelligent insights.

Core Purpose

Transforms raw IPC benchmark data into actionable performance insights through professional-grade visualizations and statistical analysis.

Key Capabilities

  • Real-time Analysis: Processes millions of data points with threaded architecture and smart caching
  • Dual Analysis Modes: Summary statistics with comparison matrices + Time series analysis with anomaly detection
  • Interactive Visualizations: Modern web interface with preset configurations for different analysis scenarios
  • Intelligent Insights: AI-powered performance recommendations and head-to-head mechanism comparisons
  • Flexible Data Handling: Auto-discovers JSON/CSV files with support for both summary and streaming data formats

Technical Highlights

  • Modular Architecture: Separated into cache, data processing, and UI components for maintainability
  • Performance Optimized: 5-15 second startup, 8-12 second analysis times, handles 8M+ records efficiently
  • Modern Interface: Dark theme with neon accents, responsive design, and export capabilities

Use Case

Ideal for system engineers, performance analysts, and researchers who need to understand IPC performance characteristics, compare mechanisms, identify bottlenecks, and generate reports from benchmark data.

In essence: It's the difference between staring at raw JSON files and having a powerful, visual analytics platform that tells you exactly how your IPC mechanisms are performing and what optimizations to make.

Description

Brief description of changes

Type of Change

  • Bug fix
  • New feature
  • Breaking change
  • Documentation update

Testing

  • Tests pass locally
  • Added tests for new functionality
  • Updated documentation

Checklist

  • Code follows style guidelines
  • Self-review completed
  • Comments added for complex code
  • Documentation updated
  • No breaking changes (or marked as breaking)

Startup Flow

  • File Discovery: Recursive pattern matching (rglob)
  • Threaded Loading: 8 workers for summary, 6 for streaming
  • Memory Optimization: Lazy loading with pandas chunking
  • Error Resilience: Graceful handling of malformed files
Startup Flow

Summary Tab Flow

  • Statistical Engine: Percentile calculations from 8M+ records
  • Performance Insights: Automated analysis with recommendations
  • Comparison Matrices: Head-to-head mechanism performance
  • Data Tables: Sortable/filterable performance metrics
Summary Tab flow

Time Series Tab Flow

  • Sampling Strategies: Uniform, peak-preserving, outlier-preserving
  • Chart Modes: Separate, combined, faceted views
  • Statistical Overlays: Rolling averages, percentile bands, anomaly detection
  • Interactive Controls: 5 preset configurations + custom settings
  • Anomaly Detection: IsolationForest (ML) + IQR-based statistical methods
Time Series Tab flow

…ations and performance optimizations

## Overview
Transform the Rusty-Comms benchmark dashboard from a monolithic application into a professional, modular architecture with significant performance and usability improvements.

## Key Features
### Modular Architecture
- Separated concerns into focused modules (cache.py, data_processor.py, dashboard.py)
- Professional structure with clean separation of caching, data processing, and UI logic
- Enhanced maintainability and better testability with extracted pure functions

### Performance Optimizations
- Threaded file processing with ThreadPoolExecutor (8 workers for summary, 6 for streaming)
- Enhanced caching with TTL-based cache and LRU eviction (10min TTL, 50 item limit)
- Memory optimization with efficient pandas operations and data sampling strategies
- Handles 8M+ records efficiently with startup in 5-15 seconds

### UI/UX Improvements
- Interactive file browser replacing simple dropdown
- Enhanced visualizations with neon color schemes and consistent styling
- Professional dark theme with responsive design and progress indicators
- 5 preset configurations for different analysis scenarios

### Data Analysis Features
- Advanced statistics with comprehensive percentile calculations from streaming data
- Anomaly detection using both ML-based (Isolation Forest) and statistical (IQR) methods
- Performance insights with automated analysis and actionable recommendations
- Head-to-head comparison matrices and time series analysis with statistical overlays

## Technical Improvements
- Removed dead code (eliminated unused render_throughput_tab function)
- Fixed precision issues with consistent message throughput table rounding
- Comprehensive error handling with graceful degradation
- Clean modular imports with proper dependency management

## Architecture Benefits
- Better separation of concerns enabling focused development
- Enhanced reusability - data processor can be used by other applications
- Improved scalability and debugging with focused modules
- Foundation for future enhancements and plugin-based architecture

## Performance Metrics
- Summary analysis: 8-12 seconds for full statistical analysis
- Time series rendering: 3-8 seconds (varies by sampling strategy)
- Memory usage: ~200-500MB for typical datasets
- Cache hit rate: 70-90% for repeated analyses

Files Added:
- utils/dashboard/cache.py - Caching functionality and decorators
- utils/dashboard/data_processor.py - Data loading and processing logic
- utils/dashboard/dashboard.py - Main UI and visualization components
- utils/dashboard/dashboard_styles.css - External CSS styling
- utils/dashboard/requirements.txt - Python dependencies
- utils/dashboard/README.md - Dashboard documentation

Breaking Changes: None - All existing functionality preserved while improving architecture and adding features.
@acalhounRH acalhounRH self-assigned this Sep 17, 2025
@acalhounRH acalhounRH added documentation Improvements or additions to documentation enhancement New feature or request labels Sep 17, 2025
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