Red Hat summit & JBoss World 2010 – second day

After a very interesting first day, the Red Hat Summit / JBoss world went on with a first session about a performance comparison of the Daytrader JEE benchmark on JBoss EAP vs. Websphere. This 2-tier (app server & database) benchmark was created by IBM for Websphere and subsequently released as open-source project under the Apache license.
The presenters were employees of the USAA and managed to install Daytrader on JBoss & DB2, reaching 80% of the performance level of Websphere, for a license cost extremely inferior. I look forward to receiving the installation details about installing Daytrader on JBoss, since the current documentation is not very comprehensive.

The second presentation was made by the technical director of the JBoss project at Red Hat about tuning of JBoss.

I then attended a presentation about SElinux that was unfortunately not technical enough and did not meet my expectations.

However, the two last presentations (actually, one presentation filling two time slots) were absolutely fantastic. One kernel developer and a guy from Red Hat’s performance team have made a presentation about tuning Red Hat. It could not go further, as far as the technical level is concerned, and the questions from the audience were also interesting.

Finally, the day ended with a party in the Faneuil hall in Boston and in the surrounding pubs.