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Software Architecture with Spring 5.0

By : René Enríquez, Alberto Salazar
Book Image

Software Architecture with Spring 5.0

By: René Enríquez, Alberto Salazar

Overview of this book

Spring 5 and its ecosystem can be used to build robust architectures effectively. Software architecture is the underlying piece that helps us accomplish our business goals whilst supporting the features that a product demands. This book explains in detail how to choose the right architecture and apply best practices during your software development cycle to avoid technical debt and support every business requirement. Choosing the right architecture model to support your business requirements is one of the key decisions you need to take when a new product is being created from scratch or is being refactored to support new business demands. This book gives you insights into the most common architectural models and guides you when and where they can be used. During this journey, you’ll see cutting-edge technologies surrounding the Spring products, and understand how to use agile techniques such as DevOps and continuous delivery to take your software to production effectively. By the end of this book, you’ll not only know the ins and outs of Spring, but also be able to make critical design decisions that surpass your clients’ expectations.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 14. High Performance

Nothing is more disappointing than having to deal with issues in production when an application is behaving in an unexpected way. In this chapter, we are going to discuss some simple techniques that can be applied in order to get rid of these annoying problems, applying simple recommendations to your daily routine to take care of the performance of your applications. Throughout this chapter, we are going to review the following topics:

  • Why performance matters
    • Scalability
    • Availability
    • Performance
  • Key recommendations to keep your software away from performance issues
    • Profiling applications
    • SQL query optimizations
    • Load testing

Let's start by introducing the importance of performance.