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Visualizing Java Garbage Collection
Ben Evans discusses garbage collection in Java along with some tooling for understanding and visualizing how it works.
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PHP on the Metal with HHVM
Keith Adams shares details on building HHVM, a PHP VM built by Facebook, along with lessons learned doing it and tuning it for high performance.
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How NOT to Measure Latency
Gil Tene introduces and demonstrates how simple and recently open sourced tools can be used to improve and gain higher confidence in both latency measurement and reporting.
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Lock-Free Algorithms For Ultimate Performance
Martin Thompson discusses the need to measure what’s going on at the hardware level in order to be able to create high performing lock-free algorithms.
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Performance Testing Java Applications
Martin Thompson explores performance testing, how to avoid the common pitfalls, how to profile when the results cause your team to pull a funny face, and what you can do about that funny face.
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Virtualizing and Tuning Large Scale Java Applications
Emad Benjamin explains how to deploy and tune a JVM on a virtual infrastructure (vSphere), and how to tune the garbage collector in this environment.
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Web Framework Performance - Examples from Django and Rails
Gareth Rushgrove overviews Ruby on Rails and Django: object caches, fragment and HTTP caching, asset compilation, profiling, log file measurement and framework hooks for instrumentation.
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Actionable Metrics - Enabling Decision-Making in Netflix’s Decentralized Environment
Roy Rapoport discusses how Netflix uses metrics to monitor and manage their operating environment along with some notes about their event management system.
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Managing and Monitoring Spring Integration Applications
Gary P Russell shows an application used for managing and monitoring apps built with Spring Integration, and overviews the JMX support provided by Spring Integration.
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Visual Interfaces in ClojureScript
Kevin Lynagh provides the rationale behind visual interfaces, and presents a sample example written in ClojureScript.
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Designing Composite Services Using BPMN 2.0 as a Visual Programming Language
Lloyd Dugan discusses using the BPMN visual programming language for designing composite services and service orchestration.
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Big Data Problems in Monitoring at eBay
Bhaven Avalani and Yuri Finklestein discuss 4 aspects encountered at eBay when dealing with monitoring data: reduction of data entropy, robust data distribution, metric extraction, efficient storage.