Palestra: The Science and Physics of Application Performance and Scalability.




Resumo

Beyond the witch craft, gut feelings and creative intuitions we often use to diagnose application performance and scalability challenges lies the infrequently chartered lands of scientific method and physics. While a life time of experience and a good guess may yield quality improvements to a struggling system, very few approaches deliver the deep operational understanding that a judicious application of scientific method and appreciation of physics will provide.

In this talk we outline how a scientific approach, together with a simple appreciation of physics, can help isolate a lot of application performance and scalability challenges. To contrast the scientific approach, we'll anonymously discuss several unfortunate, embarrassing and humorous application design mistakes encountered during the adoption of technologies like Oracle Coherence.



Track: Casos e Soluções


Horário: 16:10, Domingo.

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Brian Oliver


Brian Oliver is a Global Solutions Architect at Oracle. He works within the Oracle Coherence Engineering group and predominantly focuses on enabling financial institutions across Europe and North America to implement massively scalable and high-performance Data Grid solutions.

Over the past 10 years he has been leading the development of large-scale multi-language and multi-currency Web, E-Commerce, Sports Gaming and Financial systems making extensive use of Java technologies. He's the founder of the Coherence SIG, probably the only regularly meeting Data Grid Special Interest Group in the world, and the Coherence Incubator, a site dedicated to providing reference implementations of architectural patterns on top of Oracle Coherence.

He's been using Java since 1996. He opens an IDE every couple of days to cook up new solutions. On alternate days he's in the air traveling around Europe and North America talking about Data Grids.

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