Kirk Pepperdine
Kirk's career began in Biochemical Engineering, where he applied his researching skills in attaching computers to sheep and cats, synthesising radio-active tylenol and developing separation techniques using High Performance Liquid Chromatography for Ottawa University and the National Research Council of Canada. Subsequently, he became employed by the Canadian Department of Defense. Kirk admits that his work at the DoD involved programming Cray supercomputers as well as other Unix systems, but he refuses or is unable to divulge the exact nature of the applications in the department other than that they involved databases and high performance systems. Kirk is a principle consultant for Kodewerk where he has focused on performance tuning. Kirk has been involved with object technologies and performance for almost 20 years. In addition to being a co-author of ANT Developers Handbook, he contributes to www.javaperformancetuning.com and is an editor for TSS www.theserverside.com
Track abstract - Room J1 - Geek central
Yet more Performance Tuning.
The session will further demonstrate a performance tuning methodology that has been presented at previous Devoxx sessions. Following the methodology allows one to progress from diagnostic to diagnostic to a diagnosis in a matter of minutes. One that eliminates the need to error prone guessing, splunk aimlessly through source code or engage in other time wasting activities. The methodology will be demonstrated in the process of tuning an application that has been juiced up with some common performance problems that have often proven difficult to find. Problems will include memory leaks, inadvertent accessing of data sources etc.
Track abstract - Room J1 - Geek central
Extending VisualVM
As developers and operations gain greater awareness of VisualVM, they often want more. The great news is as VisualVM is built on the NetBeans Rich Client Platform it can be extended in a number of different ways. In this session that is exactly what will be demonstrated. The session will show how one can extend VisualVM to support standard and customized views of JMX Beans and Serviceability Agents.
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