Kirk Pepperdine, Java Performance Tuning

Kirk Pepperdine has more than 15 years of experience in informatics. During that time he has focused on applying Object Oriented methodologies and technologies to the field of distributed computing, where Kirk has functioned as a researcher, developer, designer, architect, and consultant. Kirk's career began in Biochemical Engineering, where he applied his researching skills in attaching computers to sheep and cats. Kirk has been heavily involved in the performance aspects of applications since the start of his career, and has tuned applications involving a variety of languages from Cray Assembler, through C, Smalltalk and on to Java. Kirk has focused on Java since 1996.

Presentation: "Performance Anti-Patterns"

Track: Performance in Modern Enterprise Systems

Time: Tuesday 13:00 - 14:00

Location: SAS Nortvegia

Abstract: Without a proper diagnosis performance tuning is reduce to a guessing game. As sub-optimal as guessing is when attempting a diagnosis, teams are often reduced to having to guess as they are unable to reproduce the problem. More often then not the reason behind their inability to reproduce the problem comes down to one or more process anti-patterns. In this talk we will explore three such process anti-patterns as well as offer possible solutions. In the process we will explore the essential elements of what is needed to understand why our system is performing as it is. The anti-patterns in question as well as solutions will be demonstrated with a working example. A secondary aim is to provide further credence to the importance of anti-patterns in the success or failure of a project.

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