Nicholas Hagen

As my ongoing investigation into picking a suitable and highly scalable server for my future applications, today I will be talking about memory.  Yesterday, we discussed performance and saw in general how Netty and Grizzly compared to one another.  Today, we will further extend that by comparing memory usage footprint at start, over time, and [...]

So I was looking at design patterns and read across the factory pattern and the pooling pattern. I know what both of those do independently but never considered them together and as a result, my mind started racing with ideas. One of the many problems with applications in terms of performance is garbage collection. Pooling [...]