Application performance measurement and Java performance

Application performance measurement is an important part of testing and refining a Java application. Performance and metrics standards help developers and QA teams make sure the application meets expectations and will function properly once it is deployed. In this section on software performance measurement, learn techniques to measure Java performance and application performance effectively and read news about trends in Java metrics.

April 25, 2018 25 Apr'18
Google Stackdriver APM enhances app monitoring

Additional profiling, debugging and tracing tools for Google's Stackdriver suite expand application performance management services for developers.
October 04, 2017 04 Oct'17
Java SE 9 approaches Atari-like performance at JavaOne 2017

As things get better, they often get slower, making better things worse. Far too often, that’s how things work in the tech sector, which is why I’m glad to see the architects of Java SE 9 bucking ...
September 12, 2017 12 Sep'17
Calling 'all aboard' on the six-month Java release train

If Oracle moves to a six-month Java release cycle instead of the existing feature-driven one, what happens next? We talk to Azul's Gil Tene about Mark Reinhold's proposal.
May 05, 2017 05 May'17
Can JVM performance in the cloud really compete with bare-metal metrics?

Surely in the world of high performance computing, there is still a place for running Java on a bare-metal machine, right? Yet according to Gil Tene and Azul's JVM performance experts, they're ...

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