Jack Shirazi & Kirk Pepperdine
Company: JavaPerformanceTuning.comAuthor Bio:
Jack Shirazi is the Director of JavaPerformanceTuning.com and author of Java Performance Tuning (O'Reilly). In addition to his performance tuning focus, Jack also develops intelligent agent technology. Contact Jack at jack@JavaPerformanceTuning.com.
Kirk Pepperdine is the Chief Technical Officer at JavaPerformanceTuning.com and has been focused on Object technologies and performance tuning for the last 15 years. Kirk is a co-author of the book ANT Developer's Handbook. Contact Kirk at kirk@JavaPerformanceTuning.com.
Tutorials written by Jack Shirazi & Kirk Pepperdine:
Eye On Performance: A Load Of Stress
Intrepid optimizers Jack Shirazi and Kirk Pepperdine, Director and CTO of JavaPerformanceTuning.com, follow performance discussions all over the Internet. A recent stop on TheServerSide.com message boards revealed some questions on stress testing and load testing. Jack and Kirk examine this subject in detail and discuss how the right tool can make a load of difference in your results.
Thursday, 22nd January 2004
Eye on Performance: Profiling on the Edge
Tuning isn't always about speed, sometimes other aspects of the application need fixing. When your application needs tuning, your first course of action is normally to monitor the application with a profiler. But profiling is not always practical -- sometimes for ironic reasons. In this installment of Eye on performance, Jack and Kirk relate their recent experiences with profiling a fat client -- so fat, in fact, that it left no room for a profiler.
Thursday, 21st April 2005
Eye on performance: Wait leaks
A fine line runs between performance tuning and debugging. Several particular categories of bugs, including memory errors and thread race conditions, frequently surface during performance tuning, and this month, our performance tuning experts Jack Shirazi and Kirk Pepperdine show how to spot a particular class of race conditions, called wait leaks.
Thursday, 28th April 2005