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Java 9 High Performance

By : Mayur Ramgir, Nick Samoylov
Book Image

Java 9 High Performance

By: Mayur Ramgir, Nick Samoylov

Overview of this book

Finally, a book that focuses on the practicalities rather than theory of Java application performance tuning. This book will be your one-stop guide to optimize the performance of your Java applications. We will begin by understanding the new features and APIs of Java 9. You will then be taught the practicalities of Java application performance tuning, how to make the best use of garbage collector, and find out how to optimize code with microbenchmarking. Moving ahead, you will be introduced to multithreading and learning about concurrent programming with Java 9 to build highly concurrent and efficient applications. You will learn how to fine tune your Java code for best results. You will discover techniques on how to benchmark performance and reduce various bottlenecks in your applications. We'll also cover best practices of Java programming that will help you improve the quality of your codebase. By the end of the book, you will be armed with the knowledge to build and deploy efficient, scalable, and concurrent applications in Java.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we described two new tools that can help a developer be more productive (JShell tool) and help improve Java application performance (jaotc tool). The examples and steps to use them will help you understand the benefits of their usage and get you started in case you decide to try them.

In the next chapter, we will discuss how to monitor Java applications programmatically using command-line tools. We will also explore how to improve the application performance via multithreading and how to tune the JVM itself after learning about the bottlenecks through monitoring.