Java applications tend to contain hundreds (sometimes thousands) of threads. The majority of these threads are in WAITING, TIMED_WAITING (i.e., dormant) state, while only a small portion of the threads are actively executing lines of code. So, we were curious... Continue Reading →
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 →
Debug/Diagnostic information about the application and JVM instance is published in the health check status page. In the health check status page, the following information is printed in the JSON format: MemoryOperating systemClass loadingCompilationThreadingCPU UtilizationDeployment versionStorageSamlSystem properties How to access... 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 →
Java.lang.VirtualMachineError is thrown when Java virtual machine encounters any internal error or resource limitation which prevents it from functioning. It's a self-defensive mechanism employed by JVM to prevent entire application from crashing. In this article lets discuss different types of... Continue Reading →
There are 8 flavors of java.lang.OutOfMemoryError. In these 8 flavors java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread is one of the commonly occurring flavor. This type of 'OutOfMemoryError' is generated when an application isn’t able to create new threads. This error can surface... Continue Reading →