Thomas Dullien discusses how language design choices impact performance, how Google's monorepo culture and Amazon's two-pizza-team culture impact code efficiency, and why statistical variance is an ...

With the release of VisualVM as a standard part of Sun’s JDK distribution since JDK 6 Update 7, it is likely that Java developers will begin using VisualVM in situations in which they previously used ...

GraalVM provides support for VisualVM, the all-in-one Java (and polyglot) monitoring and troubleshooting tool. VisualVM enables powerful yet easy-to-use Java tooling which includes heap analysis for ...

The Birds of a Feather session “Monitoring and Troubleshooting Java Platform Applications with JDK Software” was led by Mandy Chung and Tomas Hurka. Each of these Sun employees possesses the ...

We shouldn't wait for memory leaks to come up as production issues. We can use some simple strategies to avoid them in the first place: * Create memory leak unit tests - although those are flaky * Run ...