Hit me baby one more time – What are cache hits and why should you care? 12/06/19 by Frank Rosner Computer architecture, e.g. the CPU cache utilization, can influence the runtime of your implementation in orders of magnitude. Read more Leave your thoughts
Microbenchmarking your Scala code 11/29/19 by Frank Rosner Microbenchmarks are a useful tool to compare the relative performance of different implementations. ScalaMeter is a microbenchmarking and regression testing framework for Scala. Read more Leave your thoughts
Explain non-blocking I/O like I’m five 04/05/19 by Frank Rosner Ten years ago there was a major shift in the field of network application development. In 2009 Ryan Dahl invented Node.js. Read more Leave your thoughts
Chaos Engineering GameDay 08/16/18 by Daniel Kocot In a recent blog post, Benjamin Wilms gave an introduction to “Chaos Engineering“. But how to apply potential Chaos Engineering... Read more Leave your thoughts
Gatling JDBC Release 1.0.0 07/18/18 by Ronny Bräunlich The first version of the Gatling extension Gatling JDBC has been released. Read about the why and how of it. Read more Leave your thoughts
Chaos Engineering – withstanding turbulent conditions in production 07/05/18 by Benjamin Wilms In this article I give you a simple and descriptive introduction to the world of Chaos Engineering. As a neat side-effect, you will meet all your colleagues, if you do it wrong! Read more Leave your thoughts
Performance measurement with JMH – Java Microbenchmark Harness 10/23/17 by Kevin Peters JMH is an OpenJDK project which aims to ease setting up a benchmark environment for Java performance tests. Read more Leave your thoughts
The JVM on Fire – Using Flame Graphs to Analyse Performance 09/21/17 by Miel Donkers Flame graphs are relatively new and take a new angle to show the profiling results of your Java application. Read more Leave your thoughts
Gatling Load Testing Part 2 – Extending Gatling 07/12/17 by Ronny Bräunlich I hope you enjoyed my first article about Gatling. The second one will go much more into detail and involves... Read more Leave your thoughts
