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Refactoring is the new documentation

Much has been written about the subject of refactoring code over the years including some very well known work by Martin Fowler. There are many resources on the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of refactoring out on the web so I don’t intend to go back over those aspects of the topic here other than to mention [...]

Category: programming

A simple servlet filter for Java performance logging

There are plenty of fancy tools for performance testing Java web applications but in addition to thorough load and volume testing before an application goes live, sometimes it’s useful just to leave simple perfomance monitoring running full time in a production environment. Monitoring the time the server takes to execute requests on your site can [...]

Category: programming