A fresh start.

Hello, World!

It's good to be back. I believe haven't written a blog post since 2011. I must say however, I have been pretty busy and I believe it was worth waiting.

Over the past few years I've been maturing my idea of a collaborative open source platform, which would serve as a basis for promoting open source software, discussing performance, testing and analytic related topics, and simply sharing experience with other people in the industry.

This idea has come to fruition, thanks to the great participation of my good friend and killer java developer Jérôme Comte. We have officially opened a new domain and website at denkbar.io .

The funny thing is, one of my last blog posts on my old blog was centered around the release of an open source tool called jdigger on sourceforge. It didn't get much public attention as we did nothing to promote it really, but it planted a seed and now that I'm re-establishing contact with some of the engineers I worked with in the last few years, I'm getting some unbelievable feedbacks. Some saying they've been using the tool every time they had performance issues, most using it on and off depending on their needs.

To me this is just a tribute to the fact that we really cared about implementing real functionality, meaning things that we really needed and helped us tremendously in our daily life as performance analysts. And if you do that, it almost doesn't matter how badly packaged your tool is, the people who understand it will use it.

Which leads us to a big new step for us : an official release (yeah, yeah, on social networks and all..) of djigger. The more modern and refined version of jdigger (you can bury that name forever by the way, oh and I take full responsibility for the bad idea, but also for the fairly clever quick-fix :D).

The first public release should be announced offcially some time this thursday. We hope you enjoy the tool and give us as much feedback as we can handle.

Soon you will find what you would never have found back then in the old school version of the tool : a comprehensive installation package, documentation, illustration of use cases via official case studies on denkbar.io, an active community of developers on github, youtube videos to help you get started with the tool and much more.

You can follow the official communications (new release, events, etc) of the denkbar community lead over at @denkbar_io, on LinkedIn and on Facebook.

Now, I don't have a lot of time today, and it's already pretty late here, but there will more frequent and more interesting posts in the future, you can count on me.

Before I go, a couple of words on the title of this blog. I'm a pretty big NBA fan, and as some of you may have assumed, this is a reference to a pretty old yet cool basketball movie called White Men Can't Jump. And on these words, I'll wander off letting you think about what it could actually mean to me ;)

PS: my old blog archives (and a few broken screenshots) are still available at dcransac.blogspot.com.

Signing off from Le Bonhomme.