Software Technology
Removing JSESSIONID from URLs for Spring Security 3.0+ applications
jsessionid in URLs look annoying, more so in search results. Disabling them from URL is just a configuration in your spring-security.xml file for Spring version 3.0 + : use the disable-url-rewriting=”true” in the security namespace for http tag. the http tag becomes: <security:http auto-config=”false” disable-url-rewriting=”true”> If you are not using http cofiguration and using FilterChainProxy, this [...]
Reference resources on NoSQL DB
NoSQL Databases and Comparisons Resources NoSQL DB is the coolest new thing on the block. It’s worth exploring no matter if it is useful for your website/webapp or not. I searched hard through web of content farms and collected some useful resources on comparison of NoSQL databases and more insights into some popular NoSQL databases [...]
Netflix Cloud Architecture
Here is an extremely useful presentation by Netflix on Netflix’ cloud architecture and why & how they moved to Cloud. Presentation Copyright: Adrian Cockcroft, Original Author. Netflix in the cloud 2011 View more presentations from Adrian Cockcroft
List of Useful Load Test Tools for Web Applications/Websites
Here is a list of some useful Load Testing tools for websites. I tried to keep the list limited to non-commercial/community-driven tools, however some commercial ones might have sneaked through. 1. Apache JMeter 2. OpenSTA 3. PyLot - Web performance tool 4. WCat- Web Capacity Analysis Tool from Microsoft 5. Selenium 6. Grinder - Java load testing [...]
Reddit’s downtime & resurrection of the Cloud Question!
So the Reddit was down for 6 hours and it brought back the question mark back to the “Cloud”. A big one. Reddit attributed their downtime to the cloud or specifically to Amazon EBS cloud! Reddit being an extremely popular website may not be able to afford another such showdown and need to think on [...]
Profiling and Diagnosing Java Application: Tools
More often than not at some point of development, and hopefully before production , the applications needs to be tuned for performance. For a java/j2ee application the one of the first tasks of performance tuning should include profiling application for memory and CPU usage. There are multiple tools and multiple ways to do the profiling [...]
