Archive for March, 2007

Solaris Internals

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

From the Back Cover "The Solaris™Internals volumes are simply the best and most comprehensive treatment of the Solaris (and OpenSolaris) Operating Environment. Any person using Solaris--in any capacity--would be remiss not to include these two new volumes in their personal library. With advanced observability tools in Solaris (likeDTrace), you will more often find yourself in what ...

Performance Solutions

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

Book Info Techniques presented are collectively known as software performance engineering (SPE). Primarily intended for experienced software developers who have used object-oriented techniques on one or more development projects.

OpenSTA

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

OpenSTA http://opensta.org/ is an open source software developed in C++, and released under the GPL licence. It is an HTTP load test application with scenario creation and monitoring, which can be distributed on different computers.

Grinder

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

The Grinder http://grinder.sourceforge.net/

JMeter

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

JMeter http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/

WebLOAD

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

WebLOAD http://www.radview.com/

Mercury Diagnostics

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

The Mercury Diagnostics profiler can be a great tool to use for identifying bottlenecks and performance problems in your J2EE application. It offers many of the features you'd find on more expensive tools (i3, PerformaSure, etc.). Unfortunately, all of the features may or may not work, depending on ...

InfraRED

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

When I first stumbled upon InfraRED (http://infrared.sourceforge.net/ I thought it was great, but the more I used it, the more bugs I found. Still, it is an open source tool, so if I was so inclined (or had the ability) I could try to fix the bugs. The ...