Java Application Performance Tuning and Memory Management

Description

In this course, you will learn :

• What can cause performance problems in our applications and how to fix them.
• The design-time options available to us as developers - how to make good coding choices for optimal performance.
• How to configure the virtual machine for better run-time performance.
• The Just In Time compiler of the JVM.
• Memory management in the virtual machine.
• Benchmarking and performance testing.

Syllabus :

• Just In Time Compilation and the Code Cache
• Selecting the JVM
• How memory works - the stack and the heap
• Passing objects between methods
• Escaping References
• The Metaspace and internal JVM memory optimisations
• Tuning the JVM's Memory Settings
• Introducing Garbage Collection
• Monitoring the Heap
• Analysing a heap dump
• Generational Garbage Collection
• Garbage Collector tuning & selection
• Using a profiler to analyse application performance
• Assessing Performance
• Benchmarking with JMH
• Performance and Benchmarking Exercise
• How Lists Work
• How Maps Work
• Other Coding Choices
• GraalVM
• Using Other JVM Languages