Modularity in Flex enterprise applications

The Flex framework provides the basic foundations for a module mechanism. To build truly modular, performant, pluggable applications we made a layer on top of it using a double swf-swc compilation mechanism and extensions inspired by Eclipse. This turns out to be a nice fit: it cleanly abstracts the lazy asynchronous loading, and making many parts of application pluggable becomes easy. [...]

Load testing enterprise applications efficiently (2/3)

Second part of the series, this entry focuses on tools to measure and visualize the load on our infrastructure (hardware, jvm, network,…). [...]