This blog walks through the process of enabling JBoss Operations Network to monitor and manage the performance of Tomcat, including enabling JMX within Tomcat. Continue reading →
I wrote this in November 2010, originally as copy for the first RTI website. The site has since moved on, and new copy has come and gone, but looking back now I realize the amount of influence Steve Jobs had on me, and OC Systems products. I thought it was fitting to capture this as a tribute to a truly great innovator. Continue reading →
Our experience is that the ability to understand, measure, and monitor end-user experience is missing from our customers’ production strategy more often than not. Unfortunately, the problems don’t stop there. We’ve collected a list of the challenges we continually find our operations customers facing. Take a look and then let us know what you think. Do our experiences parallel yours’, or do you have a different set of challenges? Continue reading →
Performance Testing Software: Do you love having the latest and greatest? We’ve got you covered, RTI v3.0.2 is now available. RTI 3.0.2 Now AvailableCome take a look at what’s new – http://www.rtiperformance.com/rti-v302-upgrade. Continue reading →
Tell us what you think about RTI in the form of an actionable comment and we’ll mail you a t-shirt. Upping your cool factor is as simple as that. Continue reading →
By starting performance testing and monitoring earlier in the application lifecycle, you will positively impact program schedule while increasing the opportunity for a program to deliver higher quality software delivered on-time and within budget. Performance testers can begin application performance characterization by leveraging ongoing testing and tools to help validate application architecture and resolve low-hanging performance defects prior to formal performance testing. Continue reading →
Application performance matters–period. Richer, better, cooler matters too, but… if you can’t give it to me fast, I don’t want it. If you’re on board with me, then stay tuned. The next series of posts will address strategies to do more performance testing and ultimately increase application performance for less. Fewer resources, less time, smaller budget, better testing – better for less! Continue reading →
No one person can hold the entire architecture of a modern system in his/her head any more. Those days are gone forever. Systems are too complex. There are countless experts in each of these areas and once the problem is isolated to his/her area, only then can the problem be addressed. The question remains: how do you isolate the problem to a specific area in the first place? You use RTI, that’s how. RTI won’t solve every problem, but what it will do is help you understand what the heck is going on in your system.
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When you are faced with diagnosing a performance problem, it’s important to come prepared. A plumber doesn’t show up to fix your leaky faucet with an empty toolbox, and you shouldn’t expect to diagnose your application performance problems without the right tools either. The good news is that you don’t have to; in fact, there is no shortage of tools at your disposal, and the challenge is often to identify which ones belong in your toolkit and which ones you should leave at home.
Here’s a few of our favorites; we think maybe they should be yours as well:
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Posted in Java performance tuning, Performance engineering, Performance tuning, RTI, Tools
Tagged java heap analysis, memory analysis, performance monitoring, performance problems, profilers, rti, tools
We put on our thinking caps and planned to do one great thing: end-to-end transaction tracing made easy. We used all the brains that we had and all we could borrow in an attempt to make RTI simple and good. The result is our Beta. Continue reading →
