Today, I was running some load scripts on code that executed an HTTP POST request to a REST service. The load test essentially ran the HTTP call over and over. When the client was done running, I ended up with a bunch of TCP connections in CLOSE_WAIT status. To see the TCP connection states, run [...]
Every software developer is (should be) reasonably well versed in the notion of model view controller (MVC). Yet, I still stumble into code that sometimes makes me wonder if something isn’t quite clear for some… I think at this point, everyone has the model part down pretty good. I’m being nice here because even in that [...]
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I ran into an interesting performance problem today. I was working on an algorithm to process text data files. My first stab at the design went through my data file starting from the first character and on, and output a string built based on some rules applied to each character. I ended up with a [...]
