You might be thinking, why should a Java developer read a book on Performance tuning? When I first faced this question a long time back, I thought I will do it later, but I never got back to that for a long time. I realize my mistake of having a lack of knowledge on memory measurement, JVM tuning, and finding bottleneck only when I faced severe performance and scalability issues on our mission-critical, server-side financial application written in Java. It's true that when you really need it, you learn most, but those times are not the best time to learn fundamentals, in fact, those times are to apply and correct your misunderstanding.
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Java ArrayList and HashMap Performance Improvement in Java
For a long time, one reason for me to update to the newer Java version was always bug fix and performance improvement. Apart from major changes like Generics in Java 1.5 and Lambdas in Java 8, there are so many small improvements, performance optimization which just goes under the radar, one such change is creating empty ArrayList and HashMap with size zero in JDK 1.7.0_40 update. Many Java developer doesn't even know about these changes, part of the blame lies on Java developers like me, as I hardly read release notes of minor Java updates.
How to find CPU and Memory used by Java process in Solaris – prstat command example
We often need to find CPU and memory utilization of a particular Java process in order to get some performance stats, capacity planning or just to understand the current load on the system. Performance monitoring and testing is an integral part of any Java application development, especially if you are working in a high-frequency trading space. In order to fix a performance problem, you have to find them first and knowledge of the right tools and commands helps there. One of the primary causes of poor application performance is it Java or any other process is the exhaustion of important resources like CPU and memory.
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