I love it when a community comes together! This morning I came across this blog post all about how easy it is to set up Tomcat monitoring on Ubuntu with HQ. As a bonus, the same process appears to apply to Nexenta, an OpenSolaris-based distribution, as well.
You know your software is useful when people post bits like this on the net. Thanks to tools like Technorati, it’s easy to find them and post them here :)
I was pleasantly surprised to come across this feature on Javier Soltero, Hyperic CEO, in The LatinConnect Magazine. Lots of good stuff there:
What’s in store for the future?
Big things! We’re growing in all directions - product, customers and employees. We aim to be the undisputed leader in a busy and emerging marketplace for open source systems management.
Here’s the PDF of Charles’ presentation on improving database performance for an application. In this case, he goes through our migration away from EJB2 to Hibernate and how we managed to squeeze better performance from PostgreSQL. As he mentions, database performance tuning is often about tuning the app to make more efficient use of the database, not tuning the database itself.
Paul Roberts at InfoWorld has written a great piece featuring Hyperic as part of his “Month of Enterprise Startups” series. The article features a nice recap of Hyperic’s beginnings and what we’ve been able to accomplish since. From the article:
Since launching in July 2006, the Hyperic product has been downloaded more than 75,000 times and Soltero knows of more than 1,000 production deployments of the product, including accounts like eHarmony.com and Ogilvy & Mather. The company’s average deployment is 25 systems, and its largest deployment manages around 600 physical machines and 30,000 metric collections a minute, Soltero said. Since launching, Hyperic has also grown from a five-person startup to a 30-person operation with 250 customers, as well as OEM partnerships with firms such as JBoss and MySQL.
Charles Lee’s 3rd article on our migration from EJB2 to Hibernate is now available for your reading pleasure. In this tale of creating a database-independent application, Charles gives details on creating the database schema, populating the data, upgrading to your newly-created database schema, and coding nuances that result from a Hibernate transition, particularly with respect to container managed relationships.
Our latest newsletter is out! Read about MySQLConf, JavaOne, HQ 3.0.4, Charles Lee in the Java Developers Journal, our scholarship contest, and much more.
There were a couple of interviews of Hyperic executives. SYS-CON TV interviewed Doug MacEachern, the video of which is not yet available. Also, James Governor and Michael Cote of Redmonk stopped by to interview Hyperic CEO Javier Soltero. They covered a lot of ground, including what’s coming up in future releases of Hyperic HQ, the state of open source systems management, and what customers really want.
Here’s Doug, Hyperic’s CTO, with Roger Strukhoff, Group Publisher and Editorial Director of SYS-CON Media:
Here is a video recording of the Redmonk guys interviewing Javer:
It was quite a week at JavaOne here in San Francisco, what with recent announcements on OpenJDK, and Java FX. Hyperic had a booth on the floor, a pod in the .orgZone, and a pod and talk at CommunityOne.
Charles Lee, Hyperic VP of Engineering, gave a talk on Monday at CommunityOne about how we managed to remove data bottlenecks and scale our PostgreSQL usage to accomodate our huge data aggregation.
Heather and I hung out at our CommunityOne pod, where we would assault unsuspecting passersby. Ok, not really, but we enjoyed talking to attendees.
I had meant to write up my thoughts on this a month ago, but they got buried…Thankfully, the Olliance Group published their summary on the event to remind me to put my thoughts out on it as well. To see theirs – check out their site thinktank.olliancegroup.com.
First, let me say I’m inherently skeptical of anything labled as a “Think Tank”. I think naming an event like that almost sets it up for missed expectations. Luckily the event was a success, even if the name was a bit overstated! Congratulations to Andrew Aitken and Mark Radcliffe for organizing a gathering of this type.
The Hyperic team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Hyperic HQ 3.0.4. This release marks some significant performance enhancements. See the full release notes and download today!
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