In this series of simulating and troubleshooting performance problems in Kotlin articles, let’s discuss how to simulate CPU consumption to spike up to 100% on a host (or container). CPU consumption will spike up whenever a thread goes on an... Continue Reading →
Recently we encountered a production in an application. This application was connecting to multiple systems of records (SOR). Oracle RAC cluster is one of the primary systems of record. This Oracle RAC cluster was slowing down due to resource constraints.... Continue Reading →
Apache PDFBox is a popular open-source library that facilitates java applications to work with PDF documents. Recently we encountered a Deadlock that surfaced in this library. In this post we have shared how we troubleshooted and identified the root cause... Continue Reading →
All multi-threaded applications are prone to deadlock. Modern Kotlin platform is no exception to it. In this post let’s discuss how to simulate a deadlock in Kotlin and how you can troubleshoot it. Video: To see the visual walk-through of... Continue Reading →
The application that we are going to discuss in this post was running on Elastic Beanstalk (EBS) service in Amazon Web Services (AWS). Intermittently this application was throwing HTTP 502 Bad Gateway error. In this post, let’s discuss how we... Continue Reading →
c1, c2 compiler threads are created by Java virtual machine to optimize your application's performance. Occasionally these threads will tend to consume high CPU. In this post, let’s learn little more about c1, c2 compiler threads and how to address... Continue Reading →
java.lang.ClassLoader#loadClass() API is used by 3rd party libraries, JDBC Drivers, frameworks, application servers to load a java class into the memory. Application developers don’t use this API frequently. However when they use the APIs such as ‘java.lang.Class.forName()’ or ‘org.springframework.util.ClassUtils.forName()’, they... Continue Reading →
There are a good number of articles that articulate functional differences between HashMap, HashTable and ConcurrentHashMap. This post compares the performance behavior of these data structures through practical examples. If you don't have patience to read the entire post, here... Continue Reading →
ConFoo Montreal is a multi-technology conference for developers. This year , they have conducted the program to exchange knowledge and ideas from speakers all over the world. Our Architect Ram Lakshmanan was invited to give a talk on the topic:... Continue Reading →