How Heroku Manages High Availability - QCon London Talk summary
Mark McGranaghan gave his talk about "High Availability at Heroku" at QCon London 2012. His most important points and take-aways are summarized in this report.
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Fabian Lange
Fabian Lange heads the Competence Center Performance at codecentric. He troubleshoots and resolves performance and stability problems in enterprise Java applications and teaches clients the practices and tools to do so themselves. His nemesis are Stop-The-World garbage collection pauses, which he fights every day. Fabian blogs on java and performance when not hacking or speaking at various conferences. He lives with his wife in Germany, where they love to open cans for their cats.
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IntelliJ IDEA 11 - What is New
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State of Performance and Stability in Java 7 Update 1
On October 18th, Oracle released Java 7 Update 1, bringing Java 7 much needed stability and fixing a critical issue. InfoQ takes a look at what new performance improvements are included.
AppDynamics Lite 2 Released - Adds Monitoring Support for Free
Application Performance Measurement (APM) vendor AppDynamics has released AppDynamics Lite version 2.0, bringing new features from their commercial product into the free version.