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The No Fluff, Just Stuff 2009 Tour rolls into Seattle on September 18-20th. The line-up has some interesting speakers:

Brian Goetz, Author of Java Concurrency in Practice
Brian Sletten, REST Expert
David Geary, Author of Graphic Java and co-author of Core JSF
Howard Lewis Ship, Creator of Tapestry and HiveMind
Ken Sipe, Technology Director, Perficient, Inc. (PRFT)
Mark Richards, SOA and [...]

I’ve done a lot of performance analysis and improvement in my time although it’s only in my last 3 projects that we started automating it.
In all cases a developer check-in would trigger the execution of a battery of stress/concurrency tests against a fully integrated as-live environment. Soak tests were scheduled nightly or over weekends against [...]