What is the Correct Caching Strategy?

While uncovering ways to speed up our application on the Google App Engine, we decided to use Memcache. This led us to an interesting discussion which I am reproducing here to get your inputs.

Long Method? Move Accumulation to a Collecting Parameter

You would have definitely come across long bulky methods which accumulate information to a local variable and pass back that information. Here the local variable goes through a lot of changes throughout the logic of the method…

Improve Performance By Using Batch Gets on Google App Engine

We are porting a JPA application to Google App Engine. One of the challenges we faced during this exercise was performance. There are simple and effective ways by which we can increase the performance of our application…

[Updated] Is This the ‘Tipping Point’ for Cloud Adoption by Enterprises?

There are two major events which have happened in the course of the last few weeks. These events have forced enterprises to get up from slumber and take notice of the changing technology dynamics.

Google App Engine: Understanding Non-Invasive Caching

In the last post on understanding caching we talked about the general support of GAE for caching and how we could easily incorporate caching in our application. You would also recollect that we talked about the invasive form of caching…

bookMyHours.com Public Beta Released

bookMyHours.com is a simple and clean enterprise timesheet application offered as SaaS on a subscription basis. The service is ‘rightweight’ and consists of the most frequently used features so that the organizations do not have to pay for features that they would…

Long Methods? Try Compose Methods

We all have seen long winding code that goes on and on. By the time you have hit page down a couple of times, you forget what the method was doing. You forget because the method is doing a lot. It is failing the SRP principle and needs to be broken down into smaller…

Managing Wicket Serialization Problem On Google App Engine

There are several problems of using Wicket on Google App Engine. We are porting a Wicket application on Google App Engine and faced several issues. This post will look at the problems we may encounter while working on a Wicket…

Managing Cold Start On Google App Engine

One of the major problem working on Google App engine is managing cold start. Well what is it?

Google App engine spins down the application when it is idle. On Google App engine, application does not get a permanent instance of java…

Best Practices for Moving to the Cloud

Recently there has been a lot of interest in cloud. There have been some major developments which have ignited the interest of many enterprises. It would not be late before enterprises start looking around and find that their competitors have already taken the…