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Cary Millsap

Method R Corporation

About

Cary Millsap is the founder and president of Method R Corporation a company devoted to genuinely satisfying software performance. He is widely known in the Oracle community as a speaker, educator, consultant, and writer. He is the author (with Jeff Holt) of Optimizing Oracle Performance and a contributor to Oracle Insights: Tales of the Oak Table. Cary is also a founding member of the Oak Table Network, an informal association of "Oracle Scientists" well known throughout the Oracle community.

Website/Blog

Blog: http://carymillsap.blogspot.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/CaryMillsap

Video
The Observations of Cary Millsap
Track: ORA

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Session description

Messed-Up Apps: a Study of Performance Antipatterns

Cary Millsap presents examples of applications that perform poorly and the patterns that result in reliably poor performance, no matter what development language you're using.

Thinking Clearly About Performance

Creating high-performance as an attribute of complex software is extremely difficult business for developers, technology administrators, architects, system analysts, and project managers. However, by understanding some fundamental principles, performance problem solving and prevention can be made far simpler and more reliable. This paper describes those principles, linking them together in a coherent journey covering the goals, the terms, the tools, and the decisions that you need to maximize your application's chance of having a long, productive, high-performance life. Examples in this paper touch upon Oracle experiences, but the scope of the paper is not restricted to Oracle products.