I’ve hit the point in Chrome where I’ve been so productive that I can’t be productive. That is, the point in which I have more tabs open than I could hope to reasonably read. What that means for y’all, is that as I close them out, I hit a few that hit interest points and are worth sharing. This week that includes some “Face Melting” and some guidance on running Java apps in virtual machines:
Face Melting
Duncan linked to some pretty cool whitepapers. Most, if not all of them are worth a read… you know, when you have some time to read things:
http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2011/03/07/talking-about-face-melting-stuff/
Java in a VM
- VMware Guidance – http://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2011/03/enterprise-java-applications-on-vsphere-best-practices.html
- Best Practices – http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/1087
- Eric Sloof’s Whitepaper – http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/1713-New-Technical-Paper-Performance-of-Multiple-Java-Applications-in-a-VMware-vSphere-4.1-VM.html
- Java Urban Legends (IBM) – http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtp04223.html
- Serialization – http://techcrux.blogspot.com/2010/11/java-best-practices-high-performance.html
- 10 Things about Java Performance – http://techcrux.blogspot.com/2010/11/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-java.html