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Java EE 8 High Performance

By : Romain Manni-Bucau
Book Image

Java EE 8 High Performance

By: Romain Manni-Bucau

Overview of this book

The ease with which we write applications has been increasing, but with this comes the need to address their performance. A balancing act between easily implementing complex applications and keeping their performance optimal is a present-day need. In this book, we explore how to achieve this crucial balance while developing and deploying applications with Java EE 8. The book starts by analyzing various Java EE specifications to identify those potentially affecting performance adversely. Then, we move on to monitoring techniques that enable us to identify performance bottlenecks and optimize performance metrics. Next, we look at techniques that help us achieve high performance: memory optimization, concurrency, multi-threading, scaling, and caching. We also look at fault tolerance solutions and the importance of logging. Lastly, you will learn to benchmark your application and also implement solutions for continuous performance evaluation. By the end of the book, you will have gained insights into various techniques and solutions that will help create high-performance applications in the Java EE 8 environment.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Summary

At the end of this chapter, you have all the keys you need to enhance your application performance. We saw how to send the right data to a browser to not have to load cached data, how to set up a cache using Java EE API (JCache), and the caching challenges you need to think about to not decrease the performance.

Being able to cache data in a distributed system is important, since any network call is very impacting on performances. Now that we know how to cache, we can go to the next level about distributed systems and see how to control the performance in a wider system. This is what our next chapter will be about—how to be fault-tolerant and avoid impacting all the applications of a system when one is starting to fail or running slower than usual.