This blog post is part of our series about Open Source Application Monitoring (APM) tools. It describes the scope of the two main "standards"  in this area called OpenTracing and OpenCensus. If you want [...]

A few weeks ago, we stumbled upon an interesting problem during a code refactoring. After changing the data type of an attribute from List<Long> to List<Double>, we noticed some severe performance issues. Our application [...]

The amount of open source Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools has grown dramatically in the last four years. The following eight tools appeared publicly starting from early 2014: [...]

We are happy to announce our next meetup which will take place on Tuesday, May 15th 2018 and will be hosted by Loyalty Partner Solutions GmbH (LPS)! This meetup will be all about application [...]

We are happy to announce our next meetup which will take place on Monday, March 19th 2018 and will be hosted by codecentric! For our first meetup in 2018 we will try something new [...]

"Measuring Tape" by Jamiesrabbits is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Why benchmarks? When writing code, you are confronted with countless small decisions all the time. “Should I use a HashMap or a ConcurrentHashMap?” “Maybe [...]

We are happy to announce our next meetup which will take place on Tuesday, November 14th 2017 and will be hosted by codecentric! The first speaker will be Dmitri Melikyan from StackImpact, who will [...]

Standing on top of a mountain peak feels majestic. Just like handling your application's peak load without any performance issues. Motivation Application performance is a subject which is relevant at all times of the [...]

In May 2015 HTTP/2 was introduced to replace HTTP/1.1 which at this point was almost 20 years old. This was the attempt to adapt the standard transfer protocol of the document-based web to the [...]