Performance
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Software Development
Performance tuning – measure don’t guess
In my performance tuning career I have given the advice to measure and not guess more often than I can…
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Software Development
Throughput and latency: performance tuning made simple
Many of our previous topics have measured the behaviour of certain systems in terms of either latency or throughput. As…
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Core Java
Investigating Memory Leaks Part 2 – Analysing the Problem
The first blog in this mini-series looked at creating a very leaky sample application, so that we can investigate techniques…
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Core Java
(Part 1 of 3): Synopsis of articles & videos on Performance tuning, JVM, GC in Java, Mechanical Sympathy, et al
I have been contemplating for a number of months about reviewing a cache of articles and videos on topics like Performance…
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Core Java
Investigating Memory Leaks Part 1 – Writing Leaky Code
I found this little problem the other day: there’s this server that runs for a while and then falls over.…
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DevOps
How to Optimize Your Website for Speed
Hey guys! Today we have a guest post about some tips on how to speed up your website! He’s currently working…
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Core Java
Why we shouldn’t use more threads than we need to
Overview There is a common argument that because we have lots of cores, and will have even more in the…
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Core Java
Scalable Counters For Multi Core
Counters are required everywhere , for e.g. to find key KPI of application, load on application, total number of request…
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Core Java
Dealing With Slow Resource Leaks
Finding resource leaks using Java-monitor Finding slow resource leaks is key to keeping your application servers up and running for…
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