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_4

4. Load Generation Overview

Erik Ostermueller¹ 

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Little Rock, Arkansas, USA

 

We have all seen brief glimpses of concern during meetings and other discussions about whether your product will be able to handle a production workload. This is performance angst. It’s like a big, red bubble of uncertainty that hovers over the team of an unreleased server-side software product .

Validating whether the architecture of a system performs well is a great way to pop the big, red bubble, and this chapter helps you get started doing that early in the software development life cycle (SDLC) .

This chapter presents a two-part plan for creating load ...