InfoQ Homepage Performance & Scalability Content on InfoQ
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Mongrel, 2500 Lines, and Economics
Zed Shaw talks about Mongrel and its impact. For companies, the talk contains valuable information about Dos/Don'ts when interacting with open source teams.
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Managing a high performance rails app without tearing your hair out
James Cox shows how to keep a Rails site's performance high. Tips include how to serve up pages faster, caching, hosting companies, and when to use SQL instead of ActiveRecord.
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The Amazon.com Technology Platform: Building Blocks for Innovation
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels explains how Amazon.com has transformed from application to platform provider, and how this platform handles the increasing number of businesses that are built on it.
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Architecture Quality: Operational Manageability
Dan Pritchett talks about how to ensure your transactional scalability doesn't ignore your architecture's manageability including lessons learned at eBay.
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Transaction Management Strategies in Mission Critical Applications
Juergen Hoeller explains the "dark art" of transaction management within high-volume mission-critical Java EE applications backed by Spring 2.
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Cluster Your JVM to SIMPLIFY application architecture
Ari Zilka introduces Open Terracotta, an open source JVM-level clustering solution that can transparently cluster POJOs & Spring beans.
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Maintaining Java Apps in Production Environments
Alexandre Rafalovitch overviews the tools and techniques that help with resolving problems that arise in production environments including common problems and rapid root cause determination methods.
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Distributed Caching Essential Lessons
Cameron Purdy shows how to improve performance via caching architectures to reduce database load & clustered caching to provide transparent fail-over.
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Architecting Toronto.com with ASP.NET
Toronto.Com attracts over 700,000 visitors a month. Built in 1997, the old technology was expensive and time-consuming to maintain. Scott takes us through what it took to modernize this site to .NET.