QWE2002 Paper VT6 Mr. Brett Hodges (Sitraka) Opening the J2EE Black Box with PerformaSure: Identifying and Eliminating Performance problems for Java and J2EE

Presentation Abstract

Your team has been developing a critical J2EE-based system. When you deploy it, you find that it only meets 10 per cent of your capacity needs. You're not alone, and help is available. This talk will present approaches to ensuring maximum performance of these systems. It will look at how cross-functional teams can diagnose performance problems by looking at database performance, network effects, scheduling priority, and memory availability. It will then suggest remedies that might include adding memory or disk space, processors, or boxes, or making adjustments to scheduling priorities. It will also focus on the things you can do to avoid these problems in the first place, such as analyzing performance earlier in the development cycle, and later in the context of the full production and the production-mirror environments.

About the Author

Brett Hodges is an Applications Engineer at Sitraka. As a member of the Client Services team, based in the European Business Unit, he plays a key role in the success of our customer's adoption of Java technology, by helping our customers to identify and resolve performance issues in their J2EE development efforts, using Sitraka's performance assurance products. Brett possesses strong Java and J2EE development skills, has experience in the deployment of large scale J2EE projects, as well as knowledge of N-tier application architectures.

He is a consultant and a developer. He is well versed in the development process on Linux, Solaris, IRIX and Windows, offering a strong understanding of the challenges in bringing quality software products to the market. On top of building a high technical knowledge, he has gained valuable experience in technical consultation.