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Maintaining Java Apps in Production Environments

Presented by Alexandre Rafalovitch on Mar 06, 2007 Length 00:52:42
Sections
Architecture & Design,
Development,
Operations & Infrastructure
Topics
Deployment / Datacenter ,
Java ,
Performance & Scalability
Tags
Performance Evaluation
 

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Summary
Alexandre Rafalovitch delivers an organized overview of the tools and techniques that help with resolving problems that arise in real production environments. The presentation places emphasis on free and open source tools capable of being useful out of the box, without extensive configuration. Common problems are discussed, along with methods of rapid analysis and root cause determination.

Bio
Alexandre Rafalovitch is a software developer with more than 15 years of experience spanning design and development, training and support. He has been working with Java since JDK 1.0a3. Alexandre's blog is at http://blog.outerthoughts.com.

About the conference
Updated Information by Alexandre Rafalovitch Posted
Good stuff by Mikhail Vladimirov Posted
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    Updated Information

    by Alexandre Rafalovitch

    Some tools have changed since the presentation had been recorded. I have written a quick update article on my blog and might do another - more detailed one - later.

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    Good stuff

    by Mikhail Vladimirov

    Highly paid contractors use many of those approaches, tools & tricks presented. Alex openly shared years of his experience with those techniques. Great presentation choice by infoq, keep up good work!

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