I was recently invited to speak at the Vancouver Java User Group https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14603101/. I proposed an AMA on performance tuning as in my experience, this turns a presentation into a group discussion which allows everyone to be engaged and that makes it more fun for everyone. The discussion in this session was mostly about methodology, or lack of it. I showed a chunk of code from one of the exercises from my performance tuning workshop. This seemingly simple exercise has st...
