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Monitoring Spring Batch with AppDynamics

When running Spring Batch in production it’s always good to keep an eye on performance. And in pre-production it’s helpful to have a tool that points to the weak spots. One option you have is to use Application Performance Management (APM) tools, and one of them is AppDynamics. In this post I describe how you need to configure AppDynamics to efficiently monitor Spring Batch jobs.
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Tobias Flohre

 

From a Mathematician’s Point of View: JMeter – Beloved Crap Tool

My company, codecentric AG, has a strong disposition towards open source tools and solutions. Therefore, it is quite natural that for me as a Java performance specialist, the load testing tool of choice is Apache’s JMeter.

Let me just state something right at the beginnig of this blog post: This is no comprehensive overview over JMeter, its features and limitations. Instead, this is a very personal view on this tool. A settlement of an overdue account, if you want to call it so.
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Dr. Raymond Georg Snatzke

 

The CenterDevice Cloud Architecture

In this post I want to give you an insight into the architecture of CenterDevice, a document management and collaboration tool for the enterprise hosted in our own cloud datacenter in Germany. CenterDevice is a startup of codecentric, with a few codecentrics working full or part time on it.

Let me start with a screenshot from our AppDynamics monitoring.
centerdevice-architecture
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Fabian Lange