Java Cloud Development: What Developers Need to Know

If you are a Java developer and your organization is jumping on the cloud computing bandwagon, you have to change the way you build and deploy applications. In this article, I will examine what is in store for you with each cloud delivery model and with both public and private cloud scenarios.

Performance Improvements: Caching

If you're looking at performance and you want to get some quick wins, the obvious place to start is caching. Caching as a concept is focused exclusively around improving performance. It's been used in disk controllers, processors, and other hardware devices since nearly the beginning of computing. Various software methods have been devised to do caching as well. Fundamentally caching has one limitation — managing updates — and several decisions. In this article, we'll explore the basic options for caching and their impact on performance.

Performance Improvement: Bigger and Better

In most cases, the process of improving performance is about 90% finding the problem and 10% fixing the problem. Find out more...