The terms JVM tuning and Java optimization are often used interchangeably, but there is an important difference between the two practices. In short, JVM tuning requires some tradeoff between metrics ...

The Java platform’s garbage collection mechanism greatly increases developer productivity, but a poorly implemented garbage collector can over-consume application resources. In this third article in ...

Learn how C4’s concurrently compacting garbage collection algorithm helps boost Java scalability for low-latency enterprise Java applications, in this installment of Eva Andreasson’s JVM performance ...

Troubleshooting live applications when they fail to meet nonfunctional requirements, such as performance, throughput and response times? That's not fun. Which is why every DevOps team should have a ...