Entries for April 2008

The funny thing about being in the logistics industry is that when it comes to your own logistics, all the lessons you have learnt at your job - about being disciplined in your packing, labeling, securing and coordinating - gets thrown out the door. At least for me that is

Just for the record, I have moved house 22 times in 32 years. Yes - thats 1 move every 1.45454545 years. (now you know my age). The secret to a surviving that many moves is not to keep anything for long...

ianlo

Hello!

I wanted to give a quick tutorial on how to benchmark real-world network performance using Soap Stone. I like this benchmark more than standard network throughput tests (ttcp, NetIO, etc) because it uses the Java JVM (just as OTM does) and it also utilizes application protocols that are similar to OTMs -- so rather than a meaningless throughput number, the results reflect the throughput you'll see with OTM and other multi-tier Java applications. Specifically, I test 3 protocols:...

chrisplough