Tag Archives: performance

Performance tuning an Ant build

Posted on 2010-03-17 by

Common advice in the Agile world is to maintain an automated build that runs in under 10 minutes. I doubt anybody would disagree that a faster build is better than a slower one. But how do we keep the build … Continue reading →

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Performance tuning a GWT application

Posted on 2008-11-16 by

With Google Web Toolkit (GWT), you write your AJAX front-end in the Java programming language which GWT then cross-compiles into optimized JavaScript that automatically works across all major browsers. …claims Google. And I must say, I’m pretty impressed by the … Continue reading →

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Breaking Encapsulation

Posted on 2008-06-21 by

Last week, we tested the upgrade procedure for the new version of our product. We got a backup from one of our clients that was over 60Gb, so we could put it to good use by testing the performance of … Continue reading →

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Importing large data sets

Posted on 2008-06-04 by

For performance testing, it is often necessary to import a large data set to test against. However, importing large data sets presents its own challenges. Below I want to give some tips on how to deal with those. Begin with … Continue reading →

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