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Troubleshooting Java
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Troubleshooting Java

by Laurentiu Spilca
April 2023
Intermediate to advanced
328 pages
8h 31m
English
Manning Publications
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7 Finding hidden issues using profiling techniques

This chapter covers

  • Sampling an app’s execution to find the currently executing methods
  • Observing execution times
  • Identifying SQL queries the app executes

In chapter 6, I said a profiler is a powerful tool that can show you a path when all the lights have gone out. But what we discussed was just a small part of the profiler’s capabilities. A profiler offers powerful tools for investigating an app’s execution, and learning to use these tools properly can help you in many scenarios.

In many cases, I have had to evaluate or investigate app executions for codebases I could barely read—old apps with poorly modeled code design, which some companies kept hidden in a wardrobe. In such cases, the profiler ...

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