Plant a Tree, Help Save the Planet

I planted two new oak trees in the backyard yesterday. One is a Bur Oak and the other is a Northern Pin Oak. I wish I would have planted them sooner, but oh well. I can't wait for them to get big to provide some privacy and shade.

New Edition

Ruby Alexandra Finck was born May 17th at 1:19 pm and weighed in at 7 lbs. 6 oz. We're proud of our latest edition!

Server Load Balancing

I just finished reading Server Load Balancing. It was an OK book, but there's only about 50 pages of real content. The rest is specific information on how to configure various vendors hardware/software, which I'm guessing can be found in their manuals. It was a book purchased for our company library almost five years ago that I had been meaning to read. Five years later I finally got around to it. It taught me a little bit about networking and made me realize there's quite a bit I'd like to learn about general networking.

AIX DB2 Performance Tuning

I recently got sucked into helping out with some performance issues for a J2EE app running WebSphere and DB2 on AIX. So far, it's been a fun ride, and I've learned quite a bit. Now I remember why I hate WAS so much. I've never worked with AIX previously and this is my first time tuning an application running on WAS. I've started reading an IBM Redbook entitled Database Performance Tuning on AIX, which looks to be an an excellent read.

We have a sizable performance lab setup, and I'm learning all about LPARs, vmo, tuning IBM's JVM, WebSphere and QA Lab with hopefully more to come.