Hi.
Sorry for top-posting, but it seems to be the practice so far in this thread.
Although I will be unable to attend anyway, I have a suggestion for a topic :
"How to get the most performance / lowest resource usage out of your Tomcat"
Admittedly, this is a vast and tortuous subject. But it seems to me that
considering
- java's reputation in general for being a computing resource hog
- the multitude of parameters available in terms of settings for the Connectors,
Executors, database connections pools, GC etc.
*and* the fact that many (a majority of ?) "tomcat users" (in the sense of this list) are
not fundamentally java web applications developers, but rather sysadmins tasked with
setting up and running tomcat systems,
some kind of "top-down" presentation, starting with some basic principles, and providing
some guidelines as what to do in some real-world scenarios, should be susceptible of
interesting a vaster potential public.
And the fact that the potential benefit of attending, may help some in reducing the
overall computing resources that have to be dedicated to run their applications (or
conversely increase the bandwidth of their existing infrastructure investment), may also
provide an argument for one's boss to send one there.
To provide some kind of (admittedly narrow) real-world link to the above, see the current
thread on the user's list, entitled originally "tomcat 8080 thread not reduced".
Clearly it shows that, for example, the way in which Tomcat allocates/deallocates
request-processing threads is not very clear from the available documentation, nor whether
it has really an impact on tomcat's resource usage or performance.
To provide a wider context : most of the experts who are answering questions on this
tomcat user's list are tomcat code committers, for whom java in general, and the tomcat
code in particular, hold no mysteries. For such people, some highly technical
presentation subject would probably seem most appealing. But the purpose of Mark's appeal
seems to be to gather a wider potential audience, so it may be sensible to choose some
subjects with could potentially appeal to people who would not normally go to such
highly-focused presentations. I am not really advocating a "tomcat for dummies"
presentation, but maybe something more akin to a tomcat marketing approach would be nice.
In any case, if you want to convince your boss to send you there, there has to be a
presentation title which your boss can understand and relate to. Without of course making
it so appealing that he will decide to attend himself.
On 16.01.2017 15:10, Berneburg, Cris J. - US wrote:
Mark
"What topic(s) need to be covered in a Tomcat conference to make it
as easy as possible to get your employer to pay for you to attend?"
OK, you asked for it. :-)
- The best and worst moments in Tomcat history.
Specific examples. Memorable events. Could be just for the year so the same
topic with different content could be presented next year, like an episode.
- Tomcat vision roadmap.
History and plans for the future. Respond to RFC and bug reports. Other
things?
- A day in the life of a Tomcat developer/contributor.
Typical vs ideal vs worst. Humor. Specific examples. Multiple presenters.
--
Cris Berneburg
CACI Lead Software Engineer
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org]
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2017 6:58 AM
To: users@tomcat.apache.org
Subject: TomcatCon @ ApacheCon
All,
There is the opportunity (if we can pull it together as a community) to run a
dedicated Tomcat conference alongside ApacheCon NA 2017. The dates are May 16
to 18.
The call for papers closes on Feb 11 so we have around a month to get
organised. We'll also need to convince the conference organisers that a) there
is a demand for this and b) we have a plan.
Getting the right content is going to be critical to success. I've been
thinking about this for a while and I think we can identify the right content
if as many folks as possible on this list answer the following
question:
We have up to three days and potentially multiple tracks so even if you think
you have a niche requirement, please speak up. We typically have a number of
Tomcat committers speaking at ApacheCon so finding someone to cover a
particular topic shouldn't be too tricky. Equally, if you have a topic you
could present on that you think others would find useful, speak up.
Do feel free to add your +1 if someone else mentions a topic your are
interested first. Having an idea of how popular the topics are would also be
helpful.
Also, we don't have to stick to the standard "Sit and listen to someone present for
40 mins" format. Discussions, workshops, hackathons are all possible.
Some topic ideas to get the ball rolling.
Hands-on workshop: Configuring TLS with Apache Tomcat Reverse Proxying to
Apache Tomcat Load-balancing with Apache Tomcat Clustering with Apache Tomcat
Tomcat Clinic (like the users list but with everyone in the same room)
Mark
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