Performance

Terracotta Heats Up Competition in Distributed Caching

Terracotta announced today the immediate release of "Terracotta for Caching," which integrates Ehcache and Terracotta.  For Terracotta, this was the...

3 replies - 3132 views - 10/06/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Performance Considerations in Distributed Applications

Distribution and Communication between applications and services is a central concept in modern application architectures. In order to profit from distribution...

1 replies - 3299 views - 09/30/09 by AloisReitbauer in News

Case study: Performance Tuning a Web Shop – Part 2

In the first part of this article, I’ve talked about the speedup challenge of a large Dutch web shop. We discussed our biggest gains applied on bottlenecks...

5 replies - 5681 views - 09/30/08 by Jeroen Borgers in Articles

Rule Engines and Performance Misconceptions

I'm starting to see a misconception between users on rule engine performance. They seem to struggle on why you can hand craft some java code and get better...

2 replies - 4700 views - 09/12/08 by Mark Proctor in Articles

Scala Actors 101 - Threadless and Scalable

Application performance is no longer a free lunch, and with current hardware trends of cores-for-the-chores, the search is on for the programming model that...

3 replies - 12724 views - 08/12/08 by Debasish Ghosh in Articles