Troubleshooting Java Performance: Detecting Anti-Patterns with Open Source Tools

© Erik Ostermueller 2017

Erik OstermuellerTroubleshooting Java Performancehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2979-8_1

1. Performance Anti-Patterns

Erik Ostermueller¹ 

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Little Rock, Arkansas, USA

 

Before getting into the details of performance troubleshooting and tuning, it is helpful to have a high-level understanding of how performance defects make it into code in the first place. The four anti-patterns presented in this chapter illustrate the main kinds of defects you will encounter in Java server-side software. Throughout the book, we will refer back to the performance anti-patterns described in this chapter.

The objectives of this chapter are:

• Learn how to start with unfamiliar-looking, raw data from a performance monitoring tool and create a ...