Java Virtual Machine (JVM) generates 3 critical artifacts that are useful for optimizing the performance and troubleshooting production problems. Those artifacts are: Garbage collection (GC) logThread DumpHeap Dump In this article let us try to understand these 3 critical artifacts,... Continue Reading →
In this article we are going to discuss how we troubleshooted a CPU spike problem that surfaced in a major trading application in North America. All of a sudden, this application’s CPU started to spike up to 100%. In fact,... Continue Reading →
Covid19 pandemic has already put a deep economic dent globally. US stock market has experienced the worst crash since 1987. Sooner or later, Enterprises have to figure out a plan to run their organizations on tight budgets. In this below 10... Continue Reading →
I told my manager that I like the title of this article. He said to me that’s not surprising, because I am still an eligible bachelor. No wonder I like the word “marrying” in the title. But for folks like... Continue Reading →
At the time (March 2020) of writing this article there are 600+ arguments that you can pass to JVM just around Garbage collection and memory. If you include other aspects, total JVM arguments count will easily cross 1000+. 😊. It's... Continue Reading →
ConFoo.CA Developer Conference is one of the biggest conferences for web developers, that took place in Canada. This Conference had 155 presentations by popular international speakers focused on pragmatic solutions for developers, enthusiastic attendees and delightful atmosphere! This year 2020,... Continue Reading →
Recently we were troubleshooting a popular SaaS application. This application was slowing down intermittently. To recover from the problem, the application had to be restarted. This application was slowing down sometimes during high traffic volume periods; sometimes during low traffic... Continue Reading →
Based on our experience, we believe Round robin may not be an effective load balancing algorithm, because it doesn't equally distribute traffic among all nodes. You might wonder how this is possible? Yes, it is possible 🙂 How Round robin... Continue Reading →
Should I be running my application with few instances (i.e. machines) with large memory size or a lot of instances with small memory size? Which strategy is optimal? This question might be confronted often. After building applications for 2 decades, after... Continue Reading →