Visualizing dependencies between Oracle objects (with Groovy & Graphviz)
“How can we visualize the dependencies between the database views in a complex database schema?” was a question recently asked in our team. Besides the obvious use of a tool that supports such a...
View ArticleChecking Oracle Indices
This is the second (and last) post in a pico-series about using Oracle’s data dictionary as a transparent excuse to post something written in Groovy. Last time we looked at dependencies, today at...
View ArticleQCON San Francisco 2008 Report – Preconference Tutorial Day
Preamble Qcon San Francisco is less about coding and more about architecture and the development of larger systems. There is also a track on agile development, since how software is developed matters....
View ArticleQCon San Francisco 2008 Report – Day 1: Thus spake Fowler and Beck
The Keynote: Agilists and Architects — Allies not Adversaries The talk by Martin Fowler & Rebecca Parsons, both of Thoughtworks, was about the systemic dysfunctionality, as Fowler put it, that...
View ArticleQCon San Francisco 2008 Report – Day 2. Scalability and Two Minutes of Video...
Lots of good sessions – many talks about scalability, DSL and REST, making it hard to choose (the attendee’s fear that ‘the other talk was better’). Unforeseen consequence: quite a few attendees...
View ArticleQCon San Francisco 2008 – Day 3 (alas, the last one)
The last day started early: 5am. San Francisco has a superb transit planner (or perhaps Toronto is the only big city that does not have one) and we went to see the Golden Gate Bridge lit by the...
View ArticleHeap in the Cloud: Using Amazon EC2 To Analyze Large JVM Heaps
Earlier this week I had to analyze a heap bigger than 1GB recently and it was frustrating: several commercial and freeware profilers I’ve tried ran ouf of their own heap or crawled to a halt (the one...
View ArticleInteresting presentation – High Performance Web Pages
The good, the bad and the unexpected, while optimizing the client side of a high-traffic web site. The presentation is available as a PDF.
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