Chapter 8

1. Microbenchmarking is used to test the performance of a system. This differs from macrobenchmarking, which runs tests on different platforms for efficiency comparison and subsequent analysis. With microbenchmarking, we typically target a specific slice of code on one system such as a method or loop. The primary purpose of microbenchmarking is to identify optimization opportunities in our code.

2. Microbenchmarking takes place across several phases of a process design, implementation, execution, analysis, and enhancement.
3. Maven, also referred to as Apache Maven, is a project management and comprehension tool that we can use to manage our application project build, reporting, and documentation.
4. pom.xml.
5. They are both configurable options.
6. All, AverageTime, SampleTime, SingleShotTime, and Throughput.
7. Nanoseconds, Microseconds, Milliseconds, Seconds, Minutes, Hours, Days...