The Importance Of Accurate Capacity Planning
Imagine being asked to re-design a computer based system on which peoples lives depended; 24x7. That happened to me, 19 years ago and it absolutely involved accurate capacity planning. It was a large...
View ArticleUpComing Video Series–Load Testing Applications To Tune And Improve Performance.
This is a very short post to let all know that we are about to record and publish a series of informative videos on how to create and use load-testing to tune applications in order to improve...
View ArticleUsing ColdFusion 2016 With Nginx - Linux
At the Adobe ColdFusion Summit, in Las Vegas in October it was announced that the next version of ColdFusion would officially support Nginx, there was quite a bit of excitement about that. This is a...
View ArticleTelecommuting An Environmental Savior
Back in May 2008 I posted a blog piece on telecommuting in technology jobs. At that time I was living in Los Angeles, CA one of the most traffic congested cities on our planet, however it is far from...
View ArticleCouchbase and CFCouchbase
Back in 2009-2011 I was co-running the ColdFusion User Group in Los Angeles CA and Luis Majano was running the Inland Empire ColdFusion User Group out in Pomona CA. We met quite a few times and Luis...
View ArticleA People's History Of The Amazon Cloud
One of my reading/listening inspirations over the years has been Howard Zinn and of course his book "A Peoples History Of The United States" is a classic whichever side of wherever we come, it is at...
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Early 2017 Reflections On ColdFusion & Others
My good friend Rex Aglibot and I were reflecting on all things technology for two hours earlier today. There is just so much going on, #Blockchain, #Ethereum, #web3j, #BigchainDB and JVM languages....
View ArticleColdFusion Summit 2017 - API Manager
This is a short and I hope sweet post. Today I will present at the 2017 ColdFusion Summit in Las Vegas on a very under understood but powerful addition to the ColdFusion family, the ColdFusion API...
View ArticleColdFusion Summit 2017 - API Manager Performance.
Here we are at day two of the 2017 ColdFusion conference. Adobe are pushing quite hard on the ColdFusion API Manager which to me makes good sense, as standard web-application server technologies are...
View ArticleColdFusion & Blockchain - Yes It's Possible In Promise
I am hoping this will be the first of a few articles on ColdFusion and #blockchain projects. Hoping because that depends on my ability and that of a great friend of mine, Rex, to do something with CF...
View ArticleYes Application Performance Matters More Than Ever
This morning I read a really compelling article on the shortage of quality and quantity in the Software Engineering world, I will share this below. A couple of paragraphs really stood out to me..."If...
View ArticleCloud Computing Costs & Reducing Them
I have worked in capacity planning and tuning servers since 1999, in many cases I used load-testing tools, starting with Segue Silk Performer and eventually I ended up using JMeter, which I still do to...
View ArticleVideo Podcast On ColdFusion & Blockchain-DLT
I was recently fortunate enough to be recorded in podcast on all things #Blockchain, #ColdFusion and #CFML, please give it a listen/watch.
View ArticleOracle To Charge For All JDK Public Updates - Jan 2019
I am repeating this blog-post here as well as in Javamem.com. I came accross this news via the Redhat devopers blog today "Oracle announced it will stop releasing public updates of Oracle JDK in...
View ArticleJava - JVM An Ever Expanding Realm
This is going to be an unusual post and only partly technology related. In the past 12 months (since my last post here) I have become ever more involved in Permaculture, a truly regenerative...
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