(Part 3 of 3): Synopsis of articles & videos on Performance tuning, JVM, GC in Java, Mechanical Sympathy, et al

This is a continuation of the previous post titled (Part 2 of 3): Synopsis of articles & videos on Performance tuning, JVM, GC in Java, Mechanical Sympathy, et al.

In our first review, The Atlassian guide to GC tuning is an extensive post covering the methodology and things to keep in mind when tuning GC, practical examples are given and references to important resources are also made in the process. The next one How NOT to measure latency by Gil Tene, he discusses some common pitfalls encountered in measuring and characterizing latency, demonstrating and discussing some false assumptions and measurement techniques that lead to dramatically incorrect reporting results, and covers simple ways to sanity check and correct these situations.  Finally Kirk Pepperdine in his post Poorly chosen Java HotSpot Garbage Collection Flags and how to fix them! throws light on some JVM flags – he starts with some 700 flags and boils it down to merely 7 flags. Also cautions you to not just draw conclusions or to take action in a whim but consult and examine – i.e. measure don’t guess!

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(Part 2 of 3): Synopsis of articles & videos on Performance tuning, JVM, GC in Java, Mechanical Sympathy, et al

This is a continuation of the previous post titled (Part 1 of 3): Synopsis of articles & videos on Performance tuning, JVM, GC in Java, Mechanical Sympathy, et al.

Without any further ado, lets get started with our next set of blogs and videos, chop…chop…! This time its Martin Thompson’s blog posts and talks. Martin’s first post on Java Garbage collection distilled basically distils the GC process and the underlying components including throwing light on a number of interesting GC flags (-XX:…). In his next talk he does his myth busting shaabang about mechanical sympathy, what people correctly believe in and the misconceptions. In the talk on performance testing, Martin takes its further and fuses Java, OS and the hardware to show how understanding of all these aspects can help write better programs.

Java Garbage Collection Distilled by Martin Thompson

There are too many flags to allow tuning the GC to achieve the throughput and latency your application requires. There’s plenty of documentation on the specifics of the bells and whistles around them but none to guide you through them.

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(Part 1 of 3): Synopsis of articles & videos on Performance tuning, JVM, GC in Java, Mechanical Sympathy, et al

I have been contemplating for a number of months about reviewing a cache of articles and videos on topics like Performance tuning, JVM, GC in Java, Mechanical Sympathy, etc… and finally took the time to do it – may be this was the point in my intellectual progress when was I required to do such a thing!

Thanks to Attila-Mihaly for giving me the opportunity to write a post for his yearly newsletter Java Advent Calendar, hence a review on various Java related topics fits the bill! The selection of videos and articles are purely random, and based on the order in which they came to my knowledge. My hidden agenda is to mainly go through them to understand and broaden my own knowledge at the same time share any insight with others along the way….read more (reblogged from the Java Advent Calendar)