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Monitoring Background Jobs in Ruby’s Resque

How to get visibility into an important component of any complex system: the messaging queueHere at AppNeta, we get to see a lot about how people build their...

0 replies - 1305 views - 05/17/13 by Tr Jordan in Articles

Caudit : Audit your performance

Performance auditing is an important issue when you deal with an application which requires high performance. As I searched on the web, I could not find a way...

0 replies - 1707 views - 05/16/13 by Yusuf Aytaş in Articles

The Taming of the Queue: Measuring the Impact of Request Queueing

A few weeks back, webserver request queueing came under heightened scrutiny as rapgenius blasted Heroku for not using as much autotune as promised in...

0 replies - 1032 views - 05/08/13 by Dan Kuebrich in Articles

Don't Compute With Wrapper

As a Java Developer, i got these interview questions a lot… really. What is the difference between int and Integer, which one is better ? The answer for...

0 replies - 1823 views - 04/05/13 by Ronald Daniel in Articles

The AWS Olypmics: Speed Testing Amazon EC2 And S3 Across Regions

So many of the web services we build and use today store and deliver their data using AWS S3. When we first began designing Takipi, we decided to...

0 replies - 1086 views - 03/20/13 by Chen Harel in Articles

Performance Testing Can Be as Simple as Unit Testing.

The first tool that comes in to mind when someone wants to do performance testing of Java server side applications is JMETER. It's free, opensource, and one...

2 replies - 2928 views - 03/07/13 by Sammaiah Kyatham in Articles

Taming the Performance Beast – a Practitioner’s Way (Part 1)

OverviewPerformance tuning can be a complex and time consuming process with good chance of you getting frustrated if you do not have abundant patience,...

0 replies - 3439 views - 01/04/13 by Gopal Sharma in Articles

The Command Design Pattern, Not Completely in Fashion

In my previous post about the command pattern, I gushed about how much I loved it. That doesn’t mean that the command pattern as originally envisioned is...

1 replies - 4028 views - 12/04/12 by Ayende Rahien in Articles

VisualVM 1.3.5 Released

VisualVM 1.3.5 has been released. Check out the list of improvements and bugfixes at http://visualvm.java.net/relnotes.html, the tool can be...

1 replies - 523 views - 11/13/12 by Jiri Sedlacek in Announcements

Sizing vFabric GemFire – VMware’s Java-based, Spring-Enabled, In-Memory Data Platform

Capacity planning in the enterprise is no easy task. In this post, we provide an overview for sizing VMware’s elastic, in-memory data management...

0 replies - 861 views - 10/22/12 by Stacey Schneider in Announcements

Apache JMeter 2.8 released

Hello, The Apache JMeter team is pleased to announce the availability of Apache JMeter 2.8 (r1393162). This release brings some valuable improvements and...

0 replies - 1138 views - 10/09/12 by Philippe Mouawad in Announcements

How Innodb Contention May Manifest Itself

Even though multiple fixes have been implemented in Percona Server and MySQL 5.5, there are still workloads in which case mutex (or rw-lock)...

0 replies - 2532 views - 09/11/12 by Peter Zaitsev in Articles

10 Useful Performance Tuning Tips for GridGain

I have been getting many questions of how to tune GridGain, so I decided to create a brief manual which covers most important tuning properties.1. GridGain is...

0 replies - 1947 views - 09/07/12 by Dmitriy Setrakyan in Articles

Speed Up with Fast Java and File Serialization

Since the first version of Java, day-by-day many developers have been trying to achieve at least as good of performance as in C/C++. JVM vendors are doing...

0 replies - 7279 views - 08/06/12 by Kuba Kubrynski in Articles

Real-Users, Performance, and What Matters to You

Web Operations and Performance Summer Camp, better known as the Velocity Conference, has come and gone. This year’s theme of Building a Faster and Stronger...

0 replies - 3470 views - 07/12/12 by Chris Kelly in Articles