While having a few drinks with some French-speaking colleagues at Le Meridien hotel in San Francisco during JavaOne 2010 I realised that French speakers have a cool name for a load phenomenon of online systems It is difficult to tune an online system for the average daily traffic volume because it varies a lot during… Continue reading Introducing the Elephant Curve
Month: October 2010
Support the petition to Apple to donate their Java implementation code to OpenJDK
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Ehcache BigMemory’s big speedup leading up to GA
Last month we made a big splash with our news of BigMemory, our add-on to Ehcache which creates very large caches in the Java process ((VLIPCCs) while still avoiding the achilles heel (hell) of GC pauses. We released charts on ehcache.org showing our performance up to 40GB of cache. Optimising for Byte Arrays. Why? We… Continue reading Ehcache BigMemory’s big speedup leading up to GA
Is it time to fork Java?
This year’s JavaOne was a dismal affair. Crammed into the Hilton hotel and Parc 55, the feeling was that Oracle had ruined the conference. And the dual conference idea also caused Java people problems: those that tried to attend the key note at Moscone with JavaOne passes were turned away – instead needing to go… Continue reading Is it time to fork Java?