Book description
Troubleshoot the most widespread and pernicious Java performance problems using a set of open-source and freely-available tools that will make you dramatically more productive in finding the root causes of slow performance. This is a brief book that focuses on a small number of performance anti-patterns, and you’ll find that most problems you encounter fit into one of these anti-patterns. The book provides a specific method in a series of steps referred to as the “P.A.t.h. Checklist” that encompasses persistence, alien systems, threads, and heap management. These steps guide you through a troubleshooting process that is repeatable, that you can apply to any performance problem in a Java application. This technique is especially helpful in 'dark' environments with little monitoring.- Assess the performance health of four main problems areas in a Java system: The P.A.t.h. Checklist presents each area with its own set of plug-it-in-now tools
- Pinpoint the code at fault for CPU and other bottlenecks without a Java profiler
- Find memory leaks in just minutes using heapSpank, the author's open-source leak detector utility that is freely available from heapSpank.org
- Avoid the 6 most common ways to mess up a load test
- Determine the exact number of threads to dial into the load generator to test your system's scalability
- Detect the three most common SQL performance anti-patterns
- Measure network response times of calls to back-end systems ('alien systems')
- Identify whether garbage collection performance is healthy or unhealthy and whether delays are caused by problems in the old or new generation, so you know which generation needs to be adjusted
Product information
- Title: Troubleshooting Java Performance: Detecting Anti-Patterns with Open Source Tools
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2017
- Publisher(s): Apress
- ISBN: 9781484229798
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