Revealing the length of Garbage Collection pauses

There are several ways to improve your product. One such way is to carefully track what your users are experiencing…

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Reducing the frequency of major GC pauses

This post will discuss a technique to reduce the burden garbage collection pauses put on the latency of your application.…

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Garbage Collection: increasing the throughput

The inspiration for this post came after stumbling upon “Pig in the Python” definition in the memory management glossary. Apparently,…

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Memory leaks – measuring frequency and severity

This post is part of our open culture – we continue sharing insights from our day-to-day work. This time we…

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Understanding volatile via example

We have spent last couple of months stabilizing the lock detection functionality in Plumbr. During this we have stumbled into…

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Identifying JVM – trickier than expected

In Plumbr we have spent the last month by building the foundation for future major improvements. One of such building…

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Out of memory: Kill process or sacrifice child

It is 6 AM. I am awake summarizing the sequence of events leading to my way-too-early wake up call. As…

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Debugging to understand Finalizers

This post is covering one of the Java built-in concepts called Finalizer. This concept is actually both well-hidden and well-known,…

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Building a nirvana

What started out three years ago as in a form of a single ANT file has grown into literally a…

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