Week in Review – 15 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

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This post was written by robert.casto on August 15, 2009

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Week in Review – 18 July 2009

Information

  • · java.net: Kirk Pepperdine Interviewed by Janice Heiss
    Janice Heiss interviews Java Champion Kirk Pepperdine about Java performance tuning and more in this java.net Community Corner 2009 podcast, recorded at JavaOne.
  • · The Disco Blog » Blog Archive » To recurse or not: Euler challenge #2
    By Andy
    While I implemented problem #1 in Groovy, I thought it would be interesting to solve problem #2 in both Java and Groovy as I wanted to get a good feel for the performance differences between solving Fibonacci via recursion and iteration
  • Architect’s Blog
    By Guy Nirpaz
    New proxy implementation now supports faster fetch times, so that reading objects by their id from local cache is almost as fast as accessing a java.util.ConcurrentHashMap (in Java) or a Dictionary (in .NET). Raw performance of
  • PHP’s Scalability and Performance comparison over Java – Digg model
    By Jiltin
    In addition, many versions of PHP was used in the test, and substantial performance improvements have been made since and are continuing to be made. Here is the article from oreillynet: PHP scales! The word on the street is that “Java
  • Why is Performance Monitoring so hard? – brettdargan.com
    By admin
    Current State – Instantaneous State based; Alerting; Historical Stats; Trace (System > Component > Request) ~ Vertical Profiling through technologies; Profiling – usually technology focused, like Java Profiling; Vital Signs Production – Under Load Times (batch or interactive); Production – Under Load and component Failures; Dev – Design/Architecture; Dev – Impl time; Test – Environment Issues – ala. Troubleshooting the Integration; Load Test Time; Soak Test Time
  • Amazon Web Services Developer Community Performance Monitoring for
    Performance Monitoring for Autoscaling. Posted Aug 8 2008 943 AM PDT As a Java developer I think of JMX which is baked into Java 5 and can be leveraged

Book

Product

  • · GigaSpaces’ XAP 7 focuses on performance
    SDTimes.com – San Bruno,CA,USA
    XAP allows Java applications to be provisioned into distributed environments without requiring code changes or separate components for clustering,

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This post was written by robert.casto on July 18, 2009

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