Monthly Archives: November 2005

Architecture

AJAX Performance

November 29, 2005 – 2:42 pm

AJAX is the new pink. In fact, Web 2.0 could be the internet revolution that makes even Bill Gates wonder about the future of software. The enhanced usability in AJAX implies a couple of things for web applications:

  • Some of the controller logic is moved from the server to the client. Less CPU cycles on the server per page, more on the client.
  • Clients make more frequent requests to the server, but with significantly smaller payloads. The business logic on the server is broken up into smaller, more self-contained XML services (SOAP, REST).
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Java

SOAP and RMI

November 3, 2005 – 7:52 am

Latest benchmark results on WebSphere 6.0.1 seem to indicate that SOAP/HTTP outperforms RMI/IIOP. Interesting, it makes me wonder if the reason comes down to IBM abandoning CORBA and placing the best developers on the SOA field. Otherwise there is really no other explanation I can think of. I’ll have to instrument some code to understand the why.…

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Other

First Entry

November 1, 2005 – 11:03 am

Not the first blog, and likely not the last one. Too many tasks, and short of time. Priorities change. And here I am on a new blog, tired of running my own. I don’t like the chores blogging, and I hate the whole ‘hoo, haa, I got trizillion hits’.

Anyway, to the point, the objective of this blog is to prepare short articles for my forthcoming book on performance analysis for web applications.

And who am I you may wonder? I usually get referred as being a ‘technical architect’, some call me a ‘performance architect’.…

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