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Java: High-Performance Apps with Java 9

By : Mayur Ramgir
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Java: High-Performance Apps with Java 9

By: Mayur Ramgir

Overview of this book

Java 9 which is one of the most popular application development languages. The latest released version Java 9 comes with a host of new features and new APIs with lots of ready to use components to build efficient and scalable applications. Streams, parallel and asynchronous processing, multithreading, JSON support, reactive programming, and microservices comprise the hallmark of modern programming and are now fully integrated into the JDK. This book focuses on providing quick, practical solutions to enhance your application's performance. You will explore the new features, APIs, and various tools added in Java 9 that help to speed up the development process. You will learn about jshell, Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation, and the basic threads related topics including sizing and synchronization. You will also explore various strategies for building microservices including container-less, self-contained, and in-container. This book is ideal for developers who would like to build reliable and high-performance applications with Java. This book is embedded with useful assessments that will help you revise the concepts you have learned in this book. This book is repurposed for this specific learning experience from material from Packt's Java 9 High Performance by Mayur Ramgir and Nick Samoylov
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
Java: High-Performance Apps with Java 9
Credits
Preface

Summary


Microservices is a new architectural and design solution for highly loaded processing systems that became popular after being successfully used in production by such giants as Amazon, Google, Twitter, Microsoft, IBM, and others. It does not mean though that you must adopt it too, but you can consider the new approach and see if some or any of it can help your applications to be more resilient and responsive.

Using microservices can provide a substantial value, but it is not free. It comes with increased complexity of the need to manage many more units through all the lifecycle from requirements and development through testing to production. Before committing to the full-scale microservice architecture, give it a shot by implementing just a few microservices and move them all the way to production. Then, let it run for some time and gauge the experience. It will be very specific to your organization. Any successful solution must not be blindly copied but adopted as fit for your particular...