TL;DR This is a quick blog to share the performance figures of Jetty 12 and to compare them to Jetty 11, updated for the release of 12.0.2. The outcome of our benchmarks is that Jetty 12 with EE10 Servlet-6.0 is 5% percent faster than Jetty 11 EE9 Servlet-5.0. The Jetty-12 Read more
One can only improve what can be reliably measured. To assert that Jetty’s performance is as good as it can be, doesn’t degrade over time and to facilitate future optimization work, we need to be able to reliably measure its performance. The primary goal The Jetty project wanted an automated Read more
Recently, I’ve been investigating some test failures that I only experienced on my own machine, which happens to run some flavor of Linux. Investigating those failures, I ran down a rabbit hole that involves Unix, Unicode, Java, filesystems, internationalization and normalization. Here is the story of what I found down Read more
Context The Jetty HTTP client internally uses a connection pool to recycle HTTP connections, as they are expensive to create and dispose of. This is a well-known pattern that has proved to work well. While this pattern brings great benefits, it’s not without its shortcomings. If the Jetty client is Read more