12 Ways to Increase Throughput by 32X and Reduce Latency by 20X
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Martin Thompson, a high-performance technology geek, has written an awesome post, Fun with my-Channels Nirvana and Azul Zing. In it Martin shows the process and techniques he used to take an existing messaging product, written in Java, and increase throughput by 32X and reduce latency by 20X. The article is very well written with lots of interesting details that make it well worth reading.
You might want to start with the High Scalability summary before tackling the “real thing.”
Of interest to subject-centric applications that rely on messaging. And anyone interested in performance for the sheer pleasure of it.