Archive for August, 2009

Tools

• Measure Your System Boot Performance With Bootchart
  By Chinmoy
  Measure Your System Boot Performance With Bootchart … It aggregates the resource utilization and information of various processes using a script running in the boot up and creates an image through a java application after bootup. …
• 10 Really Useful Server Monitoring Tools
  By Tom
  With these server monitoring tools you need never worry ever again about the performance of your website as absolutely anything can be monitored from speed to security. … detailed reports and flexible alerts. This powerful tool, which supports Web 2.0, AJAX and plugin-based applications like Flash and Java, gives you a truly global perspective on how end-users see your site with monitoring agents stationed in the USA, Asia, Africa and Europe. webmetrics …
• Yet another bloody blog: What test technology and tools are you …
  By Mark Crowther
  It came as little surprise that the use of Selenium and Ruby was not what most expected as say QTP or Java are more commonplace. This prompted me to think about: What technologies and tools are you using now in the

Info

• A Few Speed Improvements – Blog – Stack Overflow
  By Jeff Atwood
  Anyway, we believe that performance is a feature, and we’re serious about the Stack Overflow family of sites being as fast as we can make them. We continue to revisit our performance every couple of months and try to improve it a little …
• Some Factors Driving UI Performance Analysis « Seven Seconds
  Ive decided to put some initial thoughts about factors that should be used by SPE’s for recommending a UI Performance Analysis project Ill briefly summarize …
• Java World: Performance Tuning in J2EE Applications
  By Pinaki
  Performance Tuning in J2EE Applications When it comes to enterprise scale Java applications there maybe severe performance degradations due to software architecture design flaws and application Infrastructure setup. …
• Carsonified » Five Things That Will Kill Your Site
  By Jonathan Howell
  This involves performance testing your application in advance. Set a level for what you consider to be an acceptable response time, and ramp up simulated users carrying out typical tasks until you exceed that threshold. … In theory modern garbage collected languages like Java and C# make memory leaks much less likely than the direct memory allocation of C and C++, but they are still possible: watch for memory allocated by static classes, caches that are not cleared, …
• Write high performance Java data access applications Part 3 Data …
  pureQuery is a high-performance Java data access platform focused on simplifying … Performance monitoring You can use hooks to measure API calls runtime …
• J2EE and Oracle Performance Musings: SQL Server Performance Snapshots
  By Chris Adkin
  When used with Catalog view and Performance Monitor counters, DMVs can provide the same functionality as Oracle10g’s Automatic Workload Repository (AWR). However, when working with SQL Server 2005, much of the intended purpose of …
• Java Memory Problems Performance, Scalability and Architecture …
  By Alois Reitbauer
  Memory problems in Java applications are manifold und easily lead to performance and scalability problems. Especially in J EE applications with a high number of parallel users memory management must be a central part of the application …