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Doing Micro-Benchmarking Wrong for the Wrong Reasons

This is a short excerpt from Chapter 2 (Performance Measurement) of Pro .NET Performance, scheduled to appear in August 2012. I might be publishing a few more...

2 replies - 2702 views - 06/22/12 by Sasha Goldshtein in Articles

Check Out Natural Load Testing

I've been following the products of WonderNetwork for a while as they do some interesting stuff with servers around the world. I particularly like Wonder...

0 replies - 3284 views - 06/20/12 by Rob Allen in Articles

Top 10 Causes of Java EE Enterprise Performance Problems

Performance problems are one of the biggest challenges to expect when designing and implementing Java EE related technologies. Some of these common problems...

0 replies - 52553 views - 06/19/12 by Pierre - Hugues... in Articles

Logging with Spring JDBC and Craftsman Spy

It was very interesting when I used the framework from Craftsman. This Framework is very useful for the JDBC Logging.Craftsman Spy is an open source and free...

0 replies - 7313 views - 06/17/12 by Walid El Sayed Aly in Articles

Performance Junkies Unite!

Every developer and sysadmin has a bit of the 'performance junkie' mentality in them.  We crave benchmarks, even though we know they all suck at giving us a...

0 replies - 8674 views - 06/13/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Every Programmer Should Know These Latency Numbers

This is interesting stuff; Jonas Bonér organized some general some latency data by Peter Norvig as a Gist, and others expanded on it. What's interesting is...

3 replies - 100028 views - 06/12/12 by Howard Lewis Ship in Articles

How to Resolve java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError is one of the common and difficult problems that you can face when developing Java EE...

2 replies - 10347 views - 06/11/12 by Pierre - Hugues... in Articles

How to Juice your Java Performance

In my previous post about equals and hashcode I thought I'd point out how to redesign the class in question to make better use of performance. If you have...

5 replies - 7672 views - 06/09/12 by Michael Mainguy in Articles

5 Tips for Fitting Performance into the Software Development Lifecycle

This is a short excerpt from Chapter 1 of Pro .NET Performance, scheduled to appear in August 2012. I might be publishing a few more of these before and after...

3 replies - 4455 views - 06/07/12 by Sasha Goldshtein in Articles

Vert.x vs. Node.js

Vert.x and Node.js are similar in some ways, and different in others. One such difference is that Node.js only allows you to write code in JavaScript...

1 replies - 7758 views - 06/05/12 by Chad Lung in Articles

Optimizing Solr - Boosting Your Search Speed by 7x!

Apache Solr powers enterprise search on sites from Ebay to Zappos. It also powers Carsabi, but when we reached 1.8M listings per month...

1 replies - 5235 views - 04/03/12 by Christopher Berner in Articles

Are Google Analytics Cookies Slowing Down the Internet?

Eduardo Cereto has some concerns about the possibility of Google Analytics cookies slowing down the sites that use the web app (which obviously includes...

5 replies - 6986 views - 01/13/12 by Eric Genesky in News

HBase, Cassandra, and MongoDB - How They Recover From a Failure

Operational stability and availability are a big deal when your application starts to handle the large, unstructured volumes of data that NoSQL solutions are...

1 replies - 9023 views - 12/15/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Let Your Applications Talk to You

In our quest to solve every memory leak in the Java world we get in touch with many teams, who struggle with performance issues of their applications. Every...

1 replies - 2686 views - 12/10/11 by Nikita Salnikov... in Articles

Martin Fowler on Polyglot Persistence

In 2006, my colleague Neal Ford coined the term Polyglot Programming, to express the idea that applications should be written in a mix of languages to...

5 replies - 10507 views - 11/17/11 by Martin Fowler in Articles