Posts tagged 'performance'

Java GC Tuning

JVM Garbage Collection wasn't something I'd ever had to worry about. Until recently. GC is a target of many jokes but in my experience it had always worked "good enough". That is, I'd never had the need for a large heap and high throughput.

That changed when ...

Continuous Blogging Pt II

It's been a while since I moved my blog to Pelican + Github + Travis + S3. At the risk of only blogging about how I build this blog, I thought I'd do a follow up post to Continuos Blogging.

I'm going to give a lighting talk at the Auckland Continuous Delivery meetup on how I build the blog and there were a few improvements I wanted to get done before the talk. Here's what I did to improve the site's performance.