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Tomcat Performance Tuning Tips

jasonb on Wednesday, September 16, 2009

I often get questions about how to tune Tomcat for better performance.  It is usually best to answer this only after first spending some time understanding the installation of Tomcat, the web site’s traffic level, and the web applications that it runs.  But, there are some general performance tips that apply regardless of these important [...]

General purpose monitoring vs. deep diagnostics – choosing the right tool

Sateesh Narahari on Monday, September 14, 2009

The promise of a monitoring solution that will pinpoint application problems and give you exact steps to fix the problem has remained a dream. In addition, monitoring systems have become notorious for being expensive and difficult to maintain. Diagnosing application performance problems requires application-specific diagnostic information that general-purpose monitoring tools often do not provide. While [...]

Sneak Peak at Mule 3.x: It’s Hot!

Andrew Perepelytsya on Tuesday, June 2, 2009

We’ve been busy working on Mule releases recently, so this blog hasn’t had as much developer voice as it deserves. Working on things like WebSphere MQ can be demanding, which is another reason to appreciate the all-new shiny WebSphere MQ connector in Mule Enterprise 2.2.1. Makes one’s life much much easier. That is not to [...]

Galaxy on EC2 in one hour!

Kevin Depew on Monday, March 30, 2009

We have been running Galaxy successfully on our in-house servers and laptops for demo purposes for some time now and decided that having a running image of Galaxy on Amazon’s EC2 was the next logical step. Galaxy in the cloud gives us the opportunity to expose a running instance to a much wider audience than [...]

Using Mule and GigaSpaces for Scalable SOA

Ken Yagen on Thursday, February 19, 2009

If you missed last week’s webinar on Scalable SOA with GigaSpaces and Mule, you can catch it again in the archives. Uri Cohen from GigaSpaces did an excellent job demonstrating how easy it is to take services developed using Mule and make them highly-available and linearly scalable. The demo application shown is also available. Download [...]

Webinar: Scalable SOA with GigaSpaces and Mule

Ken Yagen on Tuesday, February 10, 2009

I am presenting a webinar with GigaSpaces tomorrow on Scalable SOA where we’ll be introducing a powerful joint solution integrating GigaSpaces’ XAP with the open source Mule ESB. This webinar is intended for developers and architects looking for an end-to-end SOA solution, featuring application resiliency, failover and linear scalability During this 1-hour event Uri Cohen, [...]

Webinar: Make Web Applications do more with Mule

Travis Carlson on Monday, December 8, 2008

I will be presenting a webinar tomorrow Dec. 9th at 9 AM PT/ Noon ET covering integration between Mule and webapps. It will be a technical walk-through of an example application consisting of two webapps consuming Mule services, one with Mule running inside it. The audience is assumed to have some prior experience developing with [...]

Performance Tuning in Mule

Andrew Perepelytsya on Tuesday, November 25, 2008

There are several ways to tune performance in Mule. I’ve just finished a page on performance tuning in the Mule 2.x User Guide that walks through the available performance tuning options and provides formulas for calculating threads. Following is an excerpt of the high-level information from that page.