performance

When developing JEE applications these days we not only deploy ‘em as containerized apps but (at least in my teams) also use containers for local development. One issue I was confronted with the other day was a performance bug with one of our apps. Back in the days I’d have just fired up VisualVM to connect to the local process causing trouble - but now, the process to attach to doesn’t run locally anymore. ...

Over years JMeter has always been a valuable tool in my box when dealing with performance testing. But when we’ve integrated those tests with our CI/CD-pipeline we always had hard times to control the pipeline outcome based on the performance results. In other words, let the test results act as a quality gate for either promoting the build-artfiact along the pipeline or not. ...