Troubleshooting Java Performance: Detecting Anti-Patterns with Open Source Tools

Ostermueller, Erik

ISBN 10: 1484229789 / ISBN 13: 9781484229781

Published by Apress, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Troubleshooting Java Performance: Detecting Anti-Patterns with Open Source Tools
• Publisher: Apress
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1484229789
• ISBN 13: 9781484229781
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Provides a brief Java performance curriculum with 12 run-on-your-own-machine performance puzzles, all aimed at making you dramatically more productive in getting to root cause

Gives expert load generation advice, including how to determine the precise load necessary to test a given application's scalability

Shows how to detect memory leaks in minutes without a heap dump, and without restarting the suspect JVM

About the Author

Erik Ostermueller is a Java architect who is passionate about performance engineering. He has spent the last 10 years leading international performance engineering teams, tuning high-throughput Java financial systems in North and South America, Europe and Asia. In 2011, he presented a paper entitled “How to Help Developers (Finally) Find Their Own Performance Defects” at the Computer Measurement Group’s annual conference, where he won “Best Paper” and the “Mullen Award” for best speaker. The proceeds of this award financed an eight-city speaking tour in the US, Canada, the UK, and Italy. 

Erik is the technical lead for the Performance Center of Excellence at FIS Global. He is the founder of heapSpank.org, wuqiSpank.org, and a contributor to JMeter-Plugins.org and other open source projects. He lives in Little Rock, Arkansas and plays soccer, tennis, and the piano.