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Who should own the non-functional tests?
This is a follow-up to a post entitled Performance tuning Java systems that I made last year, which talked about some performance testing that I was doing for a customer. Last week, I went back to the same customer to make some small tweaks to the test ... 		07-Jul-2008
11:03:00
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NFRs for system replacements
As software architects, we tend to write about non-functional requirements a lot; particularly about how they should be defined and challenged because of the influence they have. One of the reasons for talking about NFRs a lot is that, in the majority, ... 		28-May-2008
11:35:00
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Scalability Principles
At the simplest level, scalability is about doing more of something. This could be responding to more user requests, executing more work or handling more data. While designing software has its complexities, making that software capable of doing lots of ... 		21-May-2008
14:12:25
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London User Group - May 2008
Here are the details of the May London User Group. Title : Building a high volume, low latency system in Java Summary : This session will provide some insight into the architecture, design and development of a greenfield high volume, low latency ... 		25-Apr-2008
14:30:52
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Podcast #2 : QCon revisited
As promised the 2nd CTA podcast is a roundtable discussion between some of the CTA contributors - namely Simon Brown, Sam Dalton and Kevin Seal. In this podcast we discuss some of the themes emerging from the recent QCon conference held in London and our ... 		25-Mar-2008
10:23:20
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Performance tuning Java systems
One of my current projects involves me performance testing a third party Java system. In essence, it's a distributed/n-tier Java EE web application and we're hitting it with a high simulated load thanks to Apache JMeter. One of the things we found is ... 		05-Nov-2007
12:23:34
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Separating the non-functionals
I was recently involved in a discussion where we were talking about the best way to increase the scalability of a software system, which is essentially a Java EE web application. The most obvious way to do this is to horizontally scale-out the ... 		02-Oct-2007
12:07:00
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Scaling is much more than software
From Scaling is much more than software comes this great little snippet about one of the ways to solve problems with your architecture. What was the solution? Re-evaluating the business logic and requirements with the customer. Whenever I'm talking ... 		24-Jan-2006
22:21:38