Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

The terms JVM tuning and Java optimization are often used interchangeably, but there is an important difference between the two practices. In short, JVM tuning requires some tradeoff between metrics ...

Do your J2EE applications run slow? Can they sustain rising traffic? This article describes performance-tuning techniques (PTT) for developing high performance and scalable JSP (JavaServer Pages) ...

Over the last year, we have focused on the role burst buffer technology might play in bolstering the I/O capabilities on some of the world’s largest machines and have focused on use cases ranging from ...

Schema design, indexes, queries, configs, I/O... what could go wrong? Follow these 10 essential tips to keep your MySQL servers humming. MySQL is the world’s most widely used open source database, and ...

A fellow developer and I have been working on a data collection application primarily written in Perl. The application retrieves measurement files from a directory, parses the files, performs some ...

"The application is horribly slow.", "I don't get the response even after I get my coffee.", "This application is useless". Sounds familiar? How many times have we heard these quotes or or felt like ...

This simple formula is at the heart of Hewlett-Packard's new OpenView Application Management portfolio, which was introduced late last month by the Palo Alto, Calif., company. The suite of new and ...