We had an outage in our online application GCeasy on Monday morning (PST) Oct' 11, 2021. When customers uploaded their Garbage Collection logs for analysis, the application was returning HTTP 504 error. HTTP 504 status code indicates that transactions are timing out. In this post, we would like to document our journey to identify the... Continue Reading →
I was surprised to witness the Java Executor behavior - which caused "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread" in our application. I would like to share my surprise (i.e. problem) and resolution to it. In order to explain the problem better, I created the following example: import java.util.concurrent.ArrayBlockingQueue; import java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor; import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit; public class ThreadLeaker... Continue Reading →
