Archive for the 'Load balancing' category

Design Issues in High-Performance Transactional Applications using Java and Linux

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by Andrew Oliver

In Java Performance Tuning on Linux Servers, Andrew Oliver covered some general and network performance tuning issues for JEE apps running on Linux. He now looks at issues for applications in the data layer. Lower level database issues, the higher level server application persistence model, and the interactions between the two are discussed. As before, it is assumed the application is “transactional” in nature. Most web applications, including client server and business applications fall in this space. (Messaging, analytical and ETL-type applications require different strategies, and different choices).

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LAMP and Java EE in Harmony

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by Michael Juntao Yuan

LAMP and Java EE are two important middleware stacks for developing web applications. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. They are all open source software included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux system. Java EE stands for Java Enterprise Edition. Red Hat chooses the open source JBoss Application Server (JBoss AS), which is an implementation of Java EE, as its official middleware stack.

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