Software Developer and Performance Engineer
Week in Review 13 June 2009
Information
- Google Page Speed – Firefox plugin for improving website performance – Tool that uses cache optimization, gzip, and minimizes request times. Can show network activity of webpages.
- Acquiring JVM Runtime Information – Descriptions of tools to get data from running Java processes. jps, jinfo, JConsole, and VisualVM)
- Dealing with multi-partition transactions in a distributed KV solution – Very interested discussion about performance ofl All0partition transactions.
- Java being ported to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon ARM processor – Market will have yet another hardware platform running Java.
Tools
- NEOTYS Announced NeoLoad 3.0 for Stress and Load Testing of Web Applications – Update of tool that can load test web applications including GWT (Google Web Toolkit)
- Total Network Monitor 1.0.1 Released – Network monitoring tool from Softinventive Lab.
- Page Speed Introduced by Google – Firefox Add-on integrated with Firebug that tells you want can be done to improve a download and display for a web page.
How To
- SharePoint Performance, Stress or Load Testing – Discussion about performance testing a SharePoint service. Describes tools and metrics that are helpful.
- Monitoring Performance – Discusses what to monitor in a Windows environment.
- How to install MySQL Monitoring Tools mtop for CenOS Debian – Instructions on how to get the monitoring tool ‘mtop’ installed for MySQL on CentOS Debian.
- JETM – The easy way to monitor your Spring Application – Instructions on how to use JETM to monitor Spring.
- Building Scalable, Complex Apps on App Engine – Session Video by Brett Slatkin that discusses data structures, techniques, and other issues and how to make them scale on the Goggle App Engine.
- Improving page download perception by moving JavaScript to the end – Small article with PHP code that describes how to increase page load perception.
- Unofficial Guide to QuiteTest Professional 10 – Site devoted to helping users with QTP.
Why Performance Test
- Making a case for application performance management by Ann Bednarz – Discusses an Aberdeen Group report about issues with application performance.
Free!
- Eclipse Web Tools Platform: Developing Java Web Applications – Discusses the Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP).
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