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9 Fallacies of Java Performance
Over the past 18 years Java has evolved into the premiere language of the enterprise. Yet cognitive fallacies persist about Java performance. In this article we examine some popular misconceptions.
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Application Performance Management Maturity Model
In this article, author Jim Hirschauer justifies the importance of application performance management (APM) process in organizations. He also describes a maturity model for application performance management with three different levels of maturity.
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CAP Twelve Years Later: How the "Rules" Have Changed
The CAP theorem asserts that any networked shared-data system can have only two of three desirable properties (Consistency, Availability and Partition Tolerance). In this IEEE article, author Eric Brewer discusses how designers can optimize consistency and availability by explicitly handling partitions, thereby achieving some trade-off of all three.
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Benchmarking JVM Concurrency Options for Java, Scala and Akka
Michael Slinn examines how to benchmark JVM concurrency options for JVM-based langauges including Java and Scala.
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Book on Solving Enterprise Applications Performance Puzzles by Leonid Grinshpan
Performance is one of the most critical attributes for enterprise applications. Even though not mentioned explicitly, properties such as response time or throughput are key issues that decide about user acceptance.Leonid Grinshpan, PhD and Consulting Director at Oracle Corporation, has dedicated his book "Solving Enterprise Applications Performance Puzzles" to this topic.
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Book Review and Interview: Java Performance, by Charlie Hunt and Binu John
Java Performance, by Charlie Hunt and Binu John, provides performance tuning advice for both Java SE and EE applications. Specifically, it provides information on performance monitoring, profiling, tuning HotSpot, and Java EE application performance tuning. InfoQ reviews the book, and talks to the authors about their approach.
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Uncovering mysteries of InputFormat: Providing better control for your Map Reduce execution.
In their article authors, Boris Lublinsky and Mike Segel, show how to leverage custom InputFormat class implementation to tighter control execution strategy of Maps in Hadoop Map Reduce jobs.
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Finding the Right Data Solution for Your Application in the Data Storage Haystack
With the recent NoSQL movement there are several alternative data storage solutions available compared to the traditional relational databases. In this article, author Srinath Perera discusses the various data storage options and what to consider when choosing each of these solutions.
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Effective Java Profiling With Open Source Tools
In this example-driven article, Joachim Haagen Skeie walks you step by step through using open source tools like JMap, VisualVM, BTrace, and EurekaJ to get under the hood of your running Java apps to effectively diagnose performance and memory problems.
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Book Review and Excerpt: Scalability Rules
Martin Abbott and Michael Fisher's book, Scalability Rules, is a compilation of 50 rules for scaling applications based on experience garnered at eBay, Intuit, PayPal, Etsy, Folica and Salesforce. The book is a handy reference for experienced and novice architects, managers, developers and operations personnel through a mix of heuristics and a priority-benefit model to rank the rules.
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Book Review: DTrace: Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD
This book is written by Brendan Gregg and Jim Mauro, both expert users in DTrace and the Solaris Internals from Prentice Hall. It covers the key features of the DTrace environment, the D language that is used to write the scripts used to provide answers to questions regarding the performance of the system under question.
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Pieter van Zyl on Benchmarking ORM Tools and Object Databases
OO7J is a Java version of the original OO7 benchmark (written in C++). This project includes benchmarking Object Relational Mapping (ORM) tools. Currently there are implementations for Hibernate on PostgreSQL, MySQL, db4o and Versant databases. InfoQ and Roberto V. Zicari from ODBMS.ORG recently interviewed Pieter van Zyl, creator of the OO7J benchmark.