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You're reading from Java 9 High Performance Practical techniques and best practices for optimizing Java applications through concurrency, reactive programming, and more

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787120785

Length 398 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Concepts

High Performance Programming

Authors (2):

Nick Samoylov

Mayur Ramgir

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

1. Learning Java 9 Underlying Performance Improvements FREE CHAPTER

2. Identifying Performance Bottlenecks

3. Learning How to Troubleshoot Code

4. Learning How to Use Profiling Tools

5. Understanding Garbage Collection and Making Use of It

6. Optimizing Code with Microbenchmarking

7. Speeding Up JSON Generation

8. Tools for Higher Productivity and Faster Application

9. Multithreading and Reactive Programming

10. Microservices

11. Making Use of New APIs to Improve Your Code

Summary

Java 9 is a great update and contains excellent opportunities for Java community members who are looking to create even larger programs and applications. Its garbage collection methods are geared towards providing consistent pause times, even at the expense of requiring more computational power. G1GC becomes the default garbage collection method and allows the full use of the capacity of the 64-bit JVMs to use large heap regions.

In the next chapter, you will learn about microbenchmarking and understand how to optimize the code with it. You will also learn about Java Microbenchmark Harness (JMH) and understand how to set up JMH. We will see some practical examples of using JMH in a real project.

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Authors (2)

Ramgir

Mayur Ramgir has more than 16 years of experience in the software industry, working at various levels. He is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and Oracle Certified SQL Database Expert. He completed an MS in computational science and engineering at Georgia Tech, USA (rank 7th in the world for computer science), and an M.Sc. in multimedia application and virtual environments at University of Sussex, UK. He has also attended various universities for other degrees and courses, such as MIT for applied software security, and University of Oxford for system and software security. He is the CEO of a software company, Zonopact, Inc. headquartered in Boston, USA, which specializes in bringing innovative applications based on AI, robotics, big data, and more. He has single-handedly developed Zonopacts flagship product, Clintra (B2B-integrated AI-assisted business management software). He is also the inventor of two patent pending technologies, ZPOD (an automated cloud-based medical kiosk system) and ZPIC (an AI-enabled robotic in-car camera system). Apart from this, he is also a prolific business writer who has authored two international award-winning books, Unbarred Innovation: A Pathway to Greatest Discoveries and Evolve Like a Butterfly: A Metamorphic Approach to Leadership. He was featured on the TV and in print media, including Fox News, NBC News, CBS News, Fox Business, Bloomberg International TV, Forbes, Inc. magazine, Daily Mirror, and The Huffington Post. He is also a contributing author of New York Daily Newspaper, the Software Development Times magazine, Newsmax Finance, AlleyWatch, Singapore's top entrepreneurship magazine Young Upstarts, and several more. He is frequently invited as a guest lecturer at various technical and management schools. He has also been invited as a judge at an international innovation challenge competition (Living Talent) in Dubai in December 2017.

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Nick Samoylov

Nick Samoylov graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, working as a theoretical physicist and learning to program as a tool for testing his mathematical models. After the demise of the USSR, Nick created and successfully ran a software company, but was forced to close it under the pressure of governmental and criminal rackets. In 1999, with his wife Luda and two daughters, he emigrated to the USA and has been living in Colorado since then, working as a Java programmer. In his free time, Nick likes to write and hike in the Rocky Mountains.

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