Performance

Oracle Taunts IBM with $10M Challenge

In the keynote address at Oracle OpenWorld this week, CEO of Oracle Larry Ellison fired back against rumors (that he believes were spread by IBM) about the...

1 replies - 4285 views - 10/13/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Nati Shalom, CTO of GigaSpaces, talks about eXtreme Application Platform 7.0

GigaSpaces Technologies last week announced the launch of eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) 7.0, an enterprise grade application server designed for deploying...

0 replies - 2770 views - 07/20/09 by Aslam Khan in Articles

Getting Started with Parallel Programming

Multi-core computers have shifted the burden of software performance from chip designers to software architects and developers. In order to gain the full...

6 replies - 9995 views - 06/23/09 by HFadeel in Articles

What is so Hard About Parallel Programming?

I've seen it again.  One more claim that "Parallel programming is hard" and then the claimant launching into some complex and convoluted solution to...

7 replies - 4885 views - 03/31/09 by claybreshears in News

YSlow Rules and Tomcat 5.5 SSL

A few weeks ago I attended The Rich Web Experience where I went to talks by Scott Davis and Nathaniel Schutta and heard about using YSlow to measure how well...

2 replies - 4363 views - 10/21/08 by rdonaway in News

Q&A: Joe Ottinger on What's New in GigaSpaces XAP 6.6

GigaSpaces has just released GigaSpaces XAP 6.6 which brings improved ease of use, stronger alignment with Java EE technologies and remote service invocations....

0 replies - 3057 views - 09/22/08 by Aslam Khan in Articles

Caching, Parallelism and Scalability

When your boss asks you to rewrite your application to be more performant and handle greater throughput, what do you do? Once upon a time, when Moore’s Law...

8 replies - 18398 views - 09/18/08 by Manik Surtani in Articles

Avoid NIO, Get Better Throughput

The Java NIO (new/non-blocking I/O) API introduced in Java 1.4 is arguably the most arcane part of the standard library.  With channels, selectors,...

5 replies - 6051 views - 09/03/08 by Dan Dyer in Articles

Scala Actors 101 - Threadless and Scalable

Application performance is no longer a free lunch, and with current hardware trends of cores-for-the-chores, the search is on for the programming model that...

3 replies - 13300 views - 08/12/08 by Debasish Ghosh in Articles