Hugh Docherty is a product manager for Quest Software’s J2EE performance management solutions. Hugh has extensive experience managing development of web-based financial applications, on top of ten years experience building and supporting web applications.
It is late Monday afternoon and your application is finally going into
production. After a year of development and months of QA, it will be live
first thing Tuesday morning. The next several days will be critical as
customers interact with the new for the first time.
It would be nice to think developers can kick back, or even get started on
new development, but that's not going to happen. Unexpected performance
degradation and errors will likely crop up, and application support staff
won't be able to address them alone.
Right now, J2EE applications management in production is a mixed bag. Some
companies have an experienced WebLogic administrator or specialized
application support staff. But many companies don't, with production
management falling to some combination of general IT application support
staff and developers (with developers shouldering more of the burde... (more)
Hugh Docherty is a product manager for Quest Software’s J2EE performance management solutions. Hugh has extensive experience managing development of web-based financial applications, on top of ten years experience building and supporting web applications.
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