Performance Resources

SQL Performance Tuning: Query Optimization 101

The following page describes some of the best practices of using SQL queries from a performance perspective. We use Oracle as our primary reference but most of the recommendations are applicable to other RDBMS SQL engines as well.

February 8, 2016

by Bikram Sinha

· 23,230 Views · 9 Likes

JMS Queue Server and Client Example Based On an ActiveMQ Provider

The basics of messaging services for Java apps, along with a client example based on ActiveMQ.

January 16, 2016

by Tomasz J-ski

· 23,275 Views · 3 Likes

How to Monitor Room Temperature With a Raspberry Pi

Start your own weather station with this easy to follow tutorial

January 6, 2016

by Jeremy Morgan

· 21,585 Views · 9 Likes

Installing Windows 8.1 guest on Linux Mint KVM

Running a Windows guest VM on Linux with KVM involves some patience and the right sequence of mounting and unmounting driver ISOs.

January 6, 2016

by Kevin Hooke

· 4,657 Views · 2 Likes

EXPLAIN FORMAT=JSON: Everything About attached_subqueries, optimized_away_subqueries, and materialized_from_subquery

EXPLAIN FORMAT=JSON provides some great details on subqueries optimization. Read on to learn more.

January 3, 2016

by Peter Zaitsev

· 4,776 Views · 2 Likes

Getting Started With the JBoss EAP 7 Quick Starts

Check out how to get up and running with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7! This comprehensive video will get your going with JBoss EAP 7.

January 1, 2016

by Markus Eisele

· 4,147 Views · 3 Likes

JBoss EAP 7 and NoSQL Using Java EE and Docker

Developers can write applications to Couchbase using many different languages and multiple SDKs. This post explains how to deploy and access a NoSQL database from JBoss EAP 7.

December 28, 2015

by Arun Gupta

· 10,760 Views · 5 Likes

How to Read a PDF File in Apache JMeter

In this article, I'll show you how to download and read a PDF file in Apache JMeter by simply creating custom requests.

December 12, 2015

by NaveenKumar Namachivayam

CORE

· 11,096 Views · 2 Likes

Event-Driven Data Management for Microservices

Learn about event-driven data management for microservices in the fifth article in our series on microservices app development. We'll explore the problem of distributed data management, event-driven architecture, and atomicity.

December 8, 2015

by Patrick Nommensen

· 31,238 Views · 15 Likes

Setting Thresholds With Quantiles

The idea is to look at the shape of your data and use that to decide where you feel is the right threshold. One of the best ways to do that is to plot the quantiles.

November 29, 2015

by B Jones

· 7,377 Views · 4 Likes

Configuring Tomcat 7 Single Sign-on with SPNEGO (Kerberos & LDAP)

Trying to set up a Single Sign-on Tomcat 7 server? Here's how to do so, complete with a look at what SPNEGO is, authentication vs. authorization, and Single Sign-on basics.

November 20, 2015

by Brett Crawley

· 76,226 Views · 8 Likes

5 Tips to Increase Node.js Application Performance

Trying to boost Node.js app performance? Check out these five tips, including reverse proxy servers and caching static files.

November 19, 2015

by Floyd Smith

· 16,018 Views · 3 Likes

Apache JMeter Keyboard Shortcuts

Learn about Apache JMeter Keyboard shortcuts which will increase your productivity while creating test plans.

November 9, 2015

by NaveenKumar Namachivayam

CORE

· 25,540 Views · 5 Likes

Choosing an NGINX Plus Load-Balancing Technique

Looking to load-balance in NGINX Plus? Here are several techniques to choose from, including Round Robin, IP Hash, and Hash.

November 2, 2015

by Patrick Nommensen

· 9,741 Views · 10 Likes

Service Discovery in a Microservices Architecture

Here's a quick overview of building apps using microservices. Specifically, an exploration of service discovery, including why to use service discovery, client-side, and server-side info.

October 30, 2015

by Patrick Nommensen

· 130,309 Views · 16 Likes

Failure Detection and Association Teardown With SCTP

It's time to see some failure detection procedures and finally how an SCTP association is closed.

October 20, 2015

by Tsvetomir Dimitrov

· 8,185 Views · 3 Likes

Integrating Syslog With Kinesis: Anticipating Use of the Firehose

On the heels of the Kinesis Firehose announcement, more people are going to be looking to integrate Kinesis with logging systems. Here is one take on solving that problem that integrates syslog-ng with Kinesis.

October 16, 2015

by Brian O' Neill

· 10,421 Views · 5 Likes

Jenkins, JaCoCo, and SonarQube Integration With Maven

Jenkins, SonarQube, and Jacoco are excellent tools for deploying applications. Check out these awesome Maven integrations.

October 11, 2015

by Tolga Tunca

· 157,485 Views · 16 Likes

Microservices and Kerberos Authentication

How to use Kerberos authentication with microservice architectures and API gateways.

October 6, 2015

by Jethro Bakker

· 19,034 Views · 7 Likes

Deal With Multi-Tenant Data in Solr

Different techniques can be used to handle multi-tenant data in Solr. This article discusses routing techniques you can use depending on the size and number of shards.

October 2, 2015

by Rafał Kuć

· 7,481 Views · 6 Likes

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