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The Top 10 Ways to Botch Enterprise Java Application Scalability and Reliability

Posted by Cameron Purdy on Jul 23, 2008 02:00 PM

Community
Java
Topics
Clustering & Caching ,
Performance & Scalability
Tags
Scalability ,
QCon San Francisco 2007 ,
QCon
Summary
In this presentation, Cameron Purdy discusses Java scaling. Topics include performance improvement versus scaling improvement, serial bottlenecks, queue theory, rewriting existing frameworks, avoiding the database, single points of failure, avoiding abstractions, disaster recovery, one-size-fits-all architecture, large JVM heaps, network failures, and trusting product claims.

Bio
Cameron Purdy is a VP of Development in Oracle's Fusion Middleware group. He was the founder, president and CEO of Tangosol and has over ten years of experience with Java and Java-related technology. As a software visionary and industry leader, Mr. Purdy is a frequent presenter at industry conferences and has received a number of awards in recognition of his contribution to the Java community.

About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community.QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.

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8 comments

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Nice title - shame about the format by Tim Murnaghan Posted Jul 25, 2008 10:24 AM
Re: Nice title - shame about the format by Justin Forder Posted Jul 25, 2008 4:51 PM
Re: Nice title - shame about the format by Adron Hall Posted Jul 29, 2008 12:34 PM
Re: Nice title - shame about the format by kuni katsuya Posted Jul 30, 2008 1:31 PM
Transcript by Michael Prescott Posted Jul 29, 2008 1:18 PM
Re: Transcript by Hermann Schmidt Posted Jul 30, 2008 6:45 AM
Re: Transcript by Cameron Purdy Posted Jul 30, 2008 3:13 PM
audio by Ilya Boyandin Posted Jul 30, 2008 4:24 AM
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    Nice title - shame about the format

    Jul 25, 2008 10:24 AM by Tim Murnaghan

    One hour video as the only format? Be a bit more realistic. Infoq video streaming is also still flaky through our firewall. What's wrong with good old slideware - especially as it's meant to be a classic 10 bullet point list.

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    Re: Nice title - shame about the format

    Jul 25, 2008 4:51 PM by Justin Forder

    Slides (synchronised with video) are working fine for me.
    Good talk.

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    Re: Nice title - shame about the format

    Jul 29, 2008 12:34 PM by Adron Hall

    Tim, maybe the firewall needs some fixin's, cuz the video works fine for me and I watched it via my Sprint PCS wireless card while riding to work on the train this morning.

    Interesting talk. Thx.

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    Transcript

    Jul 29, 2008 1:18 PM by Michael Prescott

    I'd really like a transcript of these things. I can read much, much faster than he can speak!

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    audio

    Jul 30, 2008 4:24 AM by Ilya Boyandin

    Good job! But it would be really great, if you had an audio podcast with the talks.

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    Re: Transcript

    Jul 30, 2008 6:45 AM by Hermann Schmidt

    I enjoyed his talk a lot, since he has a good sense of humor.

    The slides are here:
    qconsf.com/sanfrancisco-2007/file?path=/QConSF2...

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    Re: Nice title - shame about the format

    Jul 30, 2008 1:31 PM by kuni katsuya

    i agree! slide deck much preferred.

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    Re: Transcript

    Jul 30, 2008 3:13 PM by Cameron Purdy

    Thanks for the positive comments .. I am starting to run out of "top 10" lists these days ;-)

    Peace,

    Cameron Purdy
    Oracle Coherence: Data Grid for Java, .NET and C++

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