WebSphere

Title:

Real World Performance Optimaisation for WebSphere

Stream:

WebSphere Technology & Architectuer Masterclasses (4)

Speakers:

Gareth Jones; Paul Stone

Abstract:

The session will provide an analysis of the steps required to performance tune an application running in a typical WebSphere environment together. It will focus on how to identify and relieve the dominant bottlenecks with a look at some of the tools available for tuning across various platforms, how to interpret heap-dump and garbage collection information and concludes with a discussion of some common performance problems that may be encountered.

Download:

WAS Performance 0803.pdf

Bio:

Gareth Jones:

Gareth Jones has been working in IT for over 20 years starting as a developer on IBM Midrange systems before progressing on to WebSphere/J2EE development over eight years ago when WebSphere was at Version 3. Gareth joined IBM 5 years ago with the ITS group when his focus switched to infrastructure solutions for WebSphere App Server applications. For the last 2 years Gareth has worked for IBM Software Services designing and implementing WebSphere App Server based systems.

Paul Stone:

Paul Stone is the Team Leader of the EMEA HiPODS team, who specialise in High Performance, On Demand Systems and emerging technologies. He is currently working directly with IBMs customers to deliver systems with extreme performance and high availability requirements. Paul has 17 years in service with IBM, performing a variety of Application Development roles including development, design and architecture and performance consultancy.