Tag Archives: java

JRugged – Making your code more RUGGED

Cowboy coding
We have all done some cowboy coding at some point in our life.  I think we can even recognize when we may be asked to perform our cowboy coding.  The scenario is something like:
Your boss or your boss’s boss comes down and says “… we have to have this new thing – and we [...]

Benchmarking the HttpClient Caching Module

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Overview
During the past year, CIM has submitted many features to the HttpClient Caching module. We recently ran some benchmarks to quantify the performance benefits and test a few failure scenarios.

Through our benchmarks, we aimed to do the following:

Characterize latency and capacity benefits provided by the caching module.
Characterize latency and capacity benifits of locally-bound memcached [...]