ITConversation podcast on Cometd and Push Technology
Phil Windley of Tecnometria has recorded an interview with me on Cometd and Push Technology. The podcast is available from ITConversations and provides an introduction to comet and cometd.[Read More]
Posted at 01:57AM Aug 04, 2010 by gregw in General | Comments[1]
Cometd-2 Throughput vs Latency
With the imminent release of cometd-2.0.0, it's time to publish some of our own lies, damned lies and benchmarks. It has be over 2 years since we published the 20,000 reasons that cometd scales and in that time we have completely reworked both the client side and server side of cometd, plus we have moved to Jetty-7.1.4 from eclipse as the main web server for cometd.[Read More]
Posted at 06:29AM Jun 23, 2010 by gregw in General | Comments[3]
Lies, Damned Lies and Benchmarks
Benchmarks like statistics can be incredibly misleading in ways that
are only obvious with detailed analysis. Recently the apache
HTTPCore
project released some benchmark results whose headline results read
as having better performance than jetty in 3 out of 4 scenarios, and that jetty NIO sucked! So is HttpCore really an faster
than Jetty and does Jetty NIO suck?
[Read More]
Posted at 01:19AM Jun 18, 2010 by gregw in General | Comments[6]
