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Please help me. I've referenced around 700 tools over the years in my newsletters, and the information needs organising and refreshing. I started last year aiming to produce a tool page for each category of tool, and from lack of time have so far only managed three categories - GC Log Analysers, Multi-Tenancy JVMs and Books.
Despite my best intentions to provide you all with a valuable resource of a page for each type of tool, I just don't have the time. So I'm asking for volunteers who would be willing to maintain the pages. For you as a volunteer, it could offer the prospect of becoming an expert in a particular area of Java performance tooling, you'd have your name and contact details (if desired) at the top of the page as the maintainer, and looking over a small set of tools once every couple of months is all you'd need to do. See those three pages for examples, the updating required is simple, just to a) add a tool if a new one comes a long; b) keep the year of the last update in brackets up to date and the tools sorted in date order so that readers can easily see which are being maintained and; c) remove a tool if it becomes unavailable.
As you can see the task set is easily doable, and this would generate a very useful resource for the Java performance community (I'm only interested in Java performance tools, not the wider range of development or operations tools). I know from feedback that these tools pages are valuable to all our community. I need volunteers for tool pages for those three plus new pages listing the following tools: Application performance management (APM); profilers; monitoring tools; collections (possibly several pages, e.g. primitive collections, maps, lists); concurrency frameworks; sorting frameworks; load testing; GC tuning; thread analysers; web performance tools; UI; I/O; troubleshooting; sizeof; logging; ... and probably others (suggestions welcome).
I have at the moment only one restriction, which is that to keep the listings independent: if you work for a company that produces a tool listed on the page, or you develop one of the tools listed on a page, you can't be a maintainer of that page.
Now on to those links to Java performance articles, tools, news and, as ever, all the extracted tips from all of this month's referenced articles.
Java performance tuning related news.
Java performance tuning related tools.
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