I had this interesting problem with a major shipping/logistics company. Their application was running on Java 6, JBoss Cluster in RedHat Linux platform. Problem Statement Frequently JBoss instances were dropping off from the JBoss cluster. In JBoss terminology, it’s “shunning” (good word). After several seconds of “shunning”, JBoss instance automatically rejoins the cluster without any... Continue Reading →
A major shipping monopoly in North America ported their Mainframe batch (25+) jobs to Java platform. This porting was done by one of the top 3 consulting companies of India. Because of the world-class architecture, selection of frameworks and code written by them, Jobs took 16:04 hours to complete. Batch jobs that were started at... Continue Reading →
Workday, leader in cloud ERP system for Finance, HR and planning is our customer. On Feb’ 21, 2019 Workday invited our architect Ram Lakshmanan to their headquarters located in Pleasanton, CA to give guest lecture on JVM performance engineering & troubleshooting. 2 hours lecture was well received & appreciated by workday SRE and Performance engineers.... Continue Reading →
TD Bank (one of the largest bank in Canada) use our products: GCeasy, FastThread and HeapHero. Last week our architect Ram Lakshmanan was invited to TD Bank office in Toronto, Canada to give training to their Performance engineers and do critical system review (CSR) on one of their core application. TD Bank performance engineers were... Continue Reading →
Cloudbees, who is the industry leader behind Jenkins CI/CD pipeline has optimized their garbage collection performance using GCeasy. Here is an interesting write up from Ryan Smith (CloudBees Sr. DevOps Engineer) write up on his GC performance optimization experience.
Recent times, Uber has been experiencing exponential growth in its traffic. Recent spike in traffic volume exposed several memory related performance bottlenecks in their platform: long garbage collection (GC) pauses, memory corruption, out-of-memory (OOM) exceptions, and memory leaks. In this brilliant article, the Uber engineering team summarizes their optimization journey: What all the challenges they... Continue Reading →
Dsquare is a highly specialized FX trading boutique. They are focused on consistently outperforming the market in short term trading. They use algorithmic trading models in the world’s biggest market-average daily volumes in foreign exchange to execute their strategies well in excess of $3 trillion. In this excellent article, Jad Sarmo, Head of Technology @ DSquare... Continue Reading →
One the world's largest automobile manufacturers has optimized their middleware platform's response time by several folds. This world renowned enterprise optimized their garbage collection performance using our GCeasy tool and was able to reduce their overall application's response time by a stunning 49.46% When you optimize Garbage collection performance, you are not only improving the... Continue Reading →
Uber focused on reducing the cost of compute capacity by improving efficiency. They saved 70K cores across 30 Mission-Critical Services by doing Go GC Tuning. Here, we are going to summarize how they implemented it, what they have achieved, and why GC tuning is important. If you want to read more about their highly effective,... Continue Reading →
The Dell Boomi Core servers experienced a performance outage in the early morning at 4 a.m. Below are the symptoms observed: Dell Boomi wasn’t responding to any incoming requests CPU consumption was skyrocketing to 100% Entire Dell Boomi cluster had to be recycled to recover from the unresponsiveness. In this post, we have shared the... Continue Reading →
