Tag: performance

Posts tagged with performance

Efficient logback logging on JVM

Efficient logging that doesn’t bring your application down is simple to setup but is often overlooked. Here are some quick tips on how to achieve exactly that Async Logging Most applications these days should have a single (console) appender. This can be linked up with your log aggregator of choice....

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Reducing Maven Package times due to resource copying

I once worked on a web application with a 250+MB code base. This consisted of 200,000 images. For every development cycle, you had to compile and deploy the code on the server which was painful to say the least. The size wasn’t the problem as much as the number of resources....

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Maven Compilation in Ram Drive

If you’re working on huge maven projects and have a slow disk, compilation, packaging and install times can sore quite high. If getting faster hard disks isn’t possible, why not try moving the compilation to a ram drive? A code base which used to take 22 minutes to compile went...

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