Inspired by the work of Stoyan on his performance advent calendar I decided to start an application performance almanac. According to wikipedia an alamanac is -”… an annual publication containing information in a particular field”.

Throughout the year I will write weekly posts on a specific topic in the area of performance management. I have chosen this domain because this blog is about performance and because I think it is worth spending time on this topic. Additionally I am currently writinig a book (in German) on Enterprise Java Performance. So snippets from the book will be published here and discussions from the posts will be reflected in the book

The posts will cover topics which come to my mind. Rather than covering specific technologies and frameworks I will cover more conceptual areas of performance management. Although the posts might be somehow a bit theoretical, the topics of the posts will cover areas of the daily life of those working in this area.

I will select topics which I currently consider interesting. However I appreciate feedback and input from you – the readers – on what you are interested in. If you have got great content in the area, I am also happy linking to your content as well.  Here you will also find proposals for upcoming articles.  Here are the first two articles:

Week 1 – The Proactivity of Troubleshooting
Week 2 – The Many Faces of End-User Monitoring
Week 3 – The Myth and Truth of Performance Measurement Overhead
Week 4 – Top 10 Reports are not the final answer
Week 5 – Hunting Lost Treasures – Understanding and Finding Memory Leaks
Week 6 – How to make Developers Write Performance Tests

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