Improve Application Performance with These Advanced GC Techniques

Application performance is on the forefront of our minds, and Garbage Collection optimization is a good place to make small,…

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Reduce GC Overhead With These 5 Simple Hacks

Five simple ways to write code that’s more memory efficient, without spending more time on it or reducing code readability…

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GC Explained: Heap

Generational Garbage Collectors JVM heap is divided into two different Generations. One is called Young and the second one is…

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Java Garbage Collectors: When Will G1GC Force CMS Out?

In JEPs proposed to target JDK 9 (2017/4/4), Mark Reinhold has written that JEP 291 (“Deprecate the Concurrent Mark Sweep…

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How Java’s Built-In Garbage Collection Will Make Your Life Better (Most of the Time)

Discover faster, more efficient performance monitoring with an enterprise APM product learning from your apps. Take the AppDynamics APM Guided…

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Generational disparity in garbage collection

For the last year, I have been helping the startup Instana to create a Java agent that traces executions within…

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APM for the Non-Java Guru: What leak?

Solve App Problems 10x Faster with AppDynamics – Monitor production apps at code-level depth with minimal overhead. Start a FREE…

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Running -XX:CompileCommand on Windows

The HotSpot JVM provides several command-line arguments related to Just In Time (JIT) compilation. In this post, I look at…

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Elastic infrastructure in practice

A couple of weeks ago I got a rare opportunity to get my hands dirty in the infrastructure field. Being…

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