Spring Boot is a widely used framework for building highly transactional Java-based web applications and backend systems. These applications process heavy loads and are often multi-threaded, requiring performance analysis for efficient resource utilization. Spring Boot applications can suffer from Deadlock problem, which can bring the entire application to grinding halt. This blog discusses the troubleshooting... Continue Reading →
What is Micro-Metrics Monitoring?
Micro-Metrics Monitoring (m3), is an exclusive yCrash technology that is designed to predict and mitigate performance issues before they surface in your production environment. This post intends to highlight its unique features. 1. Predict Outages Most of the APM tools monitor Macro Metrics like CPU utilization, Memory utilization and response time. While these are excellent... Continue Reading →
Virtual Threads – A Definite Advantage
It's great to explore the world of Virtual Threads, a powerful feature in Java that promises to revolutionize multi-threaded applications. In this article, we'll delve into how Virtual Threads can enhance your application's performance and scalability, all while keeping thread management overhead very minimal. Let's embark on this journey to harness the full potential of... Continue Reading →
Spring Boot Buggy APIs – Simulate performance problems
The Spring Boot Buggy API offers a valuable platform to simulate various performance issues in your applications. By intentionally creating problems like DB connection leaks, memory leaks, CPU spikes, and more, you can assess your system's resilience and evaluate the effectiveness of performance tools. Fig 1: SpringBoot Buggy API - Performance Issue Simulator Buggy Api... Continue Reading →
Chaos Engineering – DB Connection Leak
All modern applications connect with storage, such as a database or cache. Database connection leak is commonly observed in modern applications, which can result in connection leaks that can lead to production outages. In our series of chaos engineering articles, we have been learning how to simulate various performance problems. In this post, let's discuss... Continue Reading →
Chaos Engineering – File Connection Leak
Many Java applications still use files for importing and exporting data. If the connections to these files are not properly managed, it can lead to a significant number of connections leaking, causing the application to slow down or even crash. In our series of chaos engineering articles, we have been learning how to simulate various... Continue Reading →
Memory Problems on Dell Boomi Core Servers
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 →
Java SpringBoot – Performance Analysis and Tuning
SpringBoot is a widely used framework for building Java-based web applications and maintains a significant presence in the world of enterprise software development. It powers large-scale microservices and standalone applications. Most SpringBoot applications have embedded web servers and follow a distributed architecture consisting of three main types of application components: Backend: API services Backend: Event... Continue Reading →
Java Collection Overhead
The Java Virtual Machine enables Java applications to be platform-independent while optimizing performance. One crucial component to understand, when considering performance, especially memory utilization, is how the Java Collections Framework, specifically the ArrayList, handles size and capacity. In this article, we will concentrate on the overhead caused by lists that contain two or three elements.... Continue Reading →
Why yCrash?
In the world of software engineering, where innovation meets precision, yCrash emerges as a toolkit designed to enhance Java performance monitoring and diagnostics. A DevOps engineer, would delve into this article as a guide that shares the practical advantages of what yCrash offers. It speaks about how yCrash empowers developers with a seamless interface for... Continue Reading →