Christoph Jahn

All too often I have heard things like “You need fast storage? Use SAN”. While this is certainly correct, most people have a relatively vague understanding about SANs in general and what they offer performance-wise compared to local disks in particular. I will not go into the details of things like the various protocols etc. [...]

Nicolas Whitehead has written a very nice series of articles on Java run-time monitoring. They are published at the IBM Developer Works site and you should definitely check them out.
* Part 1, Run-time performance and availability monitoring for Java systems
* Part 2, Post-compilation instrumentation and performance monitoring
* Part 3, Monitoring performance and availability of an [...]