Heap in the Cloud: Using Amazon EC2 To Analyze Large JVM Heaps
Earlier this week I had to analyze a heap bigger than 1GB recently and it was frustrating: several commercial and freeware profilers I’ve tried ran ouf of their own heap or crawled to a halt (the one...
View ArticleGetting Hudson to use Amazon EC2
I just bumped into a Hudson plugin that is capable of launching slaves running on Amazon EC2 on demand. Isn’t this an awesome plugin ? Here is an excerpt of what the plugin documentation: “This plugin...
View ArticleElastic Build Systems with GridCentric’s Copper
This morning I was directed to a fantastic product by Toronto-based startup GridCentric called Copper. Copper is GridCentric’s Cluster Operating System, and is the cornerstone of the following...
View ArticleMcKinsey: Ten tech-driven business trends
In the August 2010 McKinsey Quarterly, the authors of “Tech-enabled Business Trends” outline their thoughts on the top ten most impactful technology trends affecting business today. It’s an...
View ArticleBig Five Technical Trends: An Overview
Dion Hinchcliffe, a contributor to ZDNet, and currently an Executive Vice President of Strategy at Dachis Group, has written an excellent summary of the impact of the current “Big Five” technical...
View ArticleAWS Elastic Load Balancer setup for VPC with Multi-Availability Zones
Amazon Web Services supports the creation of a network running on their infrastructure that is rich enough for separate public and private subnets just like you may have done in the past on your own...
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