The use of graphics processing unit (GPU) in modern browsers, particularly for page rendering, means that there is no more excuse for laggy animation. In some...
0 replies - 1647 views - 02/19/14 by Ariya Hidayat in Articles
The results of latest round of ESB performance study is out now, which has been conducted by WSO2, comparing performance of 4 open source ESBs. This is...
0 replies - 1508 views - 02/19/14 by Pushpalanka Jay... in Articles
Do you profile your code using JProfiler or YourKit? You should, because their licenses are worth every penny when you can find a very hidden...
1 replies - 993 views - 02/19/14 by Lukas Eder in Articles
This week I read a 2010 FoSER paper on software bloat analysis. The paper summarizes a bunch of research on runtime bloat of Java applications,...
3 replies - 5016 views - 02/17/14 by John Esposito in Articles
Make sure you didn't miss anything with this list of the Best of the
Week in the Big Data Zone (Feb. 7 to Feb. 13). Here they are, in order
of...
0 replies - 4397 views - 02/16/14 by Alec Noller in Articles
This post comes from Kairi Kangro at the Plumbr blog. This article is about overhead posed by one of the most popular frameworks used – I bet there is close...
5 replies - 6901 views - 02/13/14 by Nikita Salnikov... in Articles
The best code coverage metric for Scala is statement coverage. Simple as that. It suits the typical programming style in Scala best. Scala is a chameleon and...
0 replies - 2045 views - 02/12/14 by Rado Buranský in Articles
This post was written by Ivo Mägi at the Plumbr blog. Throughout those years we have kept a close eye on the
problems packaged in different flavours of...
1 replies - 3662 views - 02/11/14 by Nikita Salnikov... in Articles
It's a common problem: As data grows, performance suffers. That was the case in this article from Blake Eggleston at the Shift Developer Blog - an expanding...
0 replies - 6588 views - 02/10/14 by Alec Noller in Articles
William Zola over at MongoDB gave a great talk called “The (Only) Three Reasons for Slow MongoDB Performance”. It reminded me of an interesting...
0 replies - 2356 views - 02/10/14 by Zardosht Kasheff in Articles
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful bug. That started from a simple request, about a feature that was just a bit too snug....
0 replies - 1797 views - 02/10/14 by Ayende Rahien in Articles
I got a pretty sizable response to my previous post on Scala.
Instead of answering each and every public & private comment and
feedback –...
2 replies - 4788 views - 02/07/14 by Nikita Ivanov in Articles
[Editor's note: This post was originally written by Jason Snell at New Relic]Here at New Relic, code performance is of paramount
importance. However, in...
0 replies - 3556 views - 02/06/14 by Leigh Shevchik in Articles
I’ve been reading the How to write one of the fastest expression evaluators in Java article (also published over at JCG) and thought to myself – there is...
0 replies - 2412 views - 02/05/14 by Attila-mihaly Balazs in Articles
In this post, we'll take a look at a practical, simple way to engineer a powerful, distributed performance testing suite, using tools commonly used in the J2EE...
0 replies - 3675 views - 02/05/14 by Rob Hinds in Articles
In my previous article, we explored dependency injection and the RoboGuice library. Today I want to talk about a tool which is great for testing and...
0 replies - 4434 views - 02/04/14 by Paresh Mayani in Articles
Overview
Hardware Transaction Memory has the potential to allow multiple threads to speculatively access the same data structure at the same time and...
0 replies - 7513 views - 02/03/14 by Peter Lawrey in Articles
Improving the load time of your website has been proven many times to be an effective method for improving your websites conversion rate.
I’ve been...
0 replies - 2009 views - 02/03/14 by David Shaw in Articles
[Originally posted on my blog]
Low latency systems require high performance message processing and passing. As in most cases data has to be...
0 replies - 2933 views - 01/29/14 by Wojciech Kudla in Articles
When building a scalable server-side application, we spend a considerable amount of time thinking about how we’ll monitor, operate and update our code...
0 replies - 2223 views - 01/29/14 by Chen Harel in Articles
