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Some performance case studies

Some performance case studies

At 10Pines we do lightning talks every week to share interesting things with all our team. Here is a presentation from the last Lighting Talk I gave. You might find some examples about: * GC parameters in Ruby to make test run much faster * Java VM profiling with VisualVM * A notebook

Parallel tests on Travis

Parallel tests on Travis

Since the last post, a lot of things happened: some things were fixed, some tests got faster and I learned that some aspects of JRuby are just slow (for now). First of all, the author of parallel_tests was very kind to not only accept my pull requests, but to

Parallel tests for JRuby

Parallel tests for JRuby

Recently, we've been porting one of our projects from Ruby 1.9.3 (MRI) to JRuby 1.7.3. There was a fair amount of work involved, mainly about Ruby gems and (in)compatibility with C extensions (which JRuby dropped support), but that will be left for another post. Here,