Dynatrace Blog
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Dynatrace's blog covers application performance, with posts on JVM garbage collection, web page speed and cloud performance.
What HN saysHN commenters cite it as an understandable comparison of garbage collectors in the three big JVMs and for measuring CSS expression overhead.
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Most-shared posts
- 1How Garbage Collection differs in the three big JVMs3 people · 82 points · first shared 2011 · 7 comments on HN
- 2Top Performance Problems taken from Zappos, Monster, Thomson and Co2 people · 30 points · first shared 2010 · 4 comments on HN
- 3The Real Performance Overhead of CSS Expressions2 people · 1 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 4Top Client-Side Performance Problems in Web 2.01 people · 2 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 5An in-depth evaluation of the performance of FIFA's world cup homepage1 people · 2 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 6Why Averages Suck and Percentiles are Great1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 7The Challenges of Performance in the Cloud and why public is easier than private1 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 8Application Performance and Architectural Problems You can Find in One Ho1 people · 1 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 9How proper redirects and caching saved us 3.5 seconds in page load time1 people · 1 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 10Why Best Practices alone don’t work any more1 people · 1 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 11Don’t let your Load Balancers ruin your Holiday Business1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 12About the Performance of Map Reduce Jobs1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 13Top Performance Mistakes when moving from Test to Production1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 14DynaTrace supports Firefox and IE1 people · 1 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 15How to Monitor and Analyze Performance of the Windows Azure Storage Service1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
Uchikoma · 2012-03-24
No.JVM GCs (JRockit, Hotspot, IBM) have developed much further than what Smalltalk did. The G1 GC is especially nice.
I found
http://blog.dynatrace.com/2011/05/11/how-garbage-collection-differs-in…
a very interesting - and understandable - article.
robin_reala · 2011-02-03
expression() gives you a functional method for defining animations; CSS transforms are declarative. They’re a different thing entirely.
Besides, expression evaluates on mousemove which is horrible for performance: http://blog.dynatrace.com/2010/02/16/the-real-performance-overhead-of-…
gtani · 2011-09-03
Thanks for those; Some other helpful:
http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages/browse_thread/thread/2c10…
http://blog.mikiobraun.de/2010/08/cassandra-gc-tuning.html
http://blog.dynatrace.com/2011/05/11/how-garbage-collection-differs-in…
http://codedependents.com/2011/06/10/java-heaps-and-garbage-collection…
http://blog.zenika.com/index.php?post/2011/06/07/Do-you-really-get-mem…
(link at bottom for vid of talk