Showing posts of category: Architecture and Performance

Whether you call it Football, Futbol, Fussball, Futebol, Calcio or Soccer – if you are a fan of this game I am sure you are looking forward to the upcoming FIFA World Cup in South Africa. The tournaments web site is http://www.fifa.com/worldcup and allows the fans to follow their teams and get the latest updates [...]

2 weeks ago I co-hosted a Webinar with one of our users – Bill Mar, Director of Engineering Services from SmithMicro Software. SmithMicro provides the backbone of our digital life by connecting different digital devices together. In his role, Bill works in the Wireless Business unit working on Voice-related services, e.g.: VoiceSMS or Visual Voicemail [...]

Lately I was checking out ShowSlow. The site is really great. It combines YSlow and PageSpeed metrics and visualizes them in a really nice way. When I clicked on the URLs Measured Tab I had to wait quite some time until the page finished downloading. While this page is really displaying a lot of information, [...]

In my last two blog entries I wrote about how to Use BizTalk Performance Counters and how to Analyze Adapter and Pipeline Performance. In this final blog I focus on Orchestration and calling external services.
Step 4: Analyzing Orchestration
Orchestrations can be as simple as reading a file from a file system, transforming it and writing it [...]

After my recent presentation at TSSJS – Performance Anti-Patterns in AJAX Applications – I got interesting feedback from one of the attendees: “The presentation was good but I thought you are talking more about actual problems with XHR/AJAX Requests”. I have to admit that I focused on all common problems of Web 2.0 applications – [...]

Searching for memory leaks can easily become an adventure – fighting through a jungle of objects and references. When the leak occurs in production time is short and you have to act fast. Like in a treasure hunt, we have to interpret signs, unravel mysteries to finally find the “lost” memory.
Memory leaks – together with [...]

Many Web Sites that use JavaScript frameworks to make the site more interactive and more appealing to the end user suffer from poor performance. Over the past couple of months I’ve been contacted by users of our FREE dynaTrace AJAX Edition asking me to help them analyze their problems. In doing so, I’ve developed a [...]

Web Site Performance is impacted by many factors and it also impacts your business. When a user interacts with the web site and it feels slow it can be caused by slowly executing JavaScript, massive DOM Manipulations, a slow network connection, latency, an overloaded web server, slow running server-side code or inefficient database queries. Web [...]

As promised to the participants of the Performance Workshop which was hold this Monday at W-JAX I created a blogpost where to post your questions to and where you will also find the workshop material. I am just in the process of compiling all the material for you and will finish this over the next [...]

I recently gave a talks on the behaviour of different JPA frameworks at W-JAX(Germany) and TheServerSide Java Symposium (Prague). As some people have asked me, I am publishing the samples as well. I would also give away the eclipse project, however with all the third party libraries I am sure I will end up not [...]