How to do GC Log analysis?

Analyzing garbage collection log provides several advantages like: Reduces GC pause time, reduces cloud computing cost, predicts outages, provides effective…

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Overhead added by collecting thread dumps

A thread dump is a snapshot of all the threads running in a java process. It’s a vital artifact to…

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Performance impact of java.lang.System.getProperty()

‘java.lang.System.getProperty()’ is a common API used by Java developers to read the System properties that are configured during application startup…

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Overhead added by Garbage Collection Logging

Enabling Garbage collection logs on your application has certain advantages. In nutshell, Garbage collection logs will facilitate you to optimize…

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Is today’s microservice bloated than yesterday’s monolithic?

I am slightly hesitant to write this post, as it might attract some criticism. Nevertheless, I told myself there is…

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“I don’t have to worry about Garbage collection” – Is it true?

I have heard a few of my developer friends say: “Garbage Collection is automatic. So, I do not have to…

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What is Garbage collection log, Thread dump, Heap dump?

Java Virtual Machine (JVM) generates 3 critical artifacts that are useful for optimizing the performance and troubleshooting production problems. Those…

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Look for exceptions, errors in thread dumps

Thread dumps are vital artifacts to troubleshoot/debug production problems. In the past we have discussed several effective thread dump troubleshooting…

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7 JVM arguments of Highly Effective Applications

At the time (March 2020) of writing this article there are 600+ arguments that you can pass to JVM just…

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