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Java Performance Testing: Best Practices & Tools

Mar 13, 2025
Catherine Edelveis
21.9
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Profiling Java Docker containers with Async Profiler
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Feb 20, 2025
Catherine Edelveis
12.8

Discover method for profiling Java apps in Docker containers with Async Profiler. A step-by-step guide.

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Alpaquita Linux Performance on ARM: A Comparative Study
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Dec 12, 2024
Dmitry Chuyko
13.6

Discover a comparative performance study of popular Linux distributions on ARM

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A guide to Java profiling: tools, techniques, best practices
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Nov 14, 2024
Catherine Edelveis
18.3

Discover Java profiling with JFR, VisualVM, Async Profiler, and more. Detailed setups and tips for production-ready applications.

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How to use Project Leyden with Spring Boot
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Jul 1, 2024
Catherine Edelveis
9.6

Find out how to use Project Leyden with Spring Boot to reduce startup

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How to increase the performance of Java applications
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Jun 27, 2024
Dmitry Chuyko
8.9

Discover a list of resources that will help you increase key performance indicators of your Java apps.

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How to use CDS with Spring Boot applications
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Jun 6, 2024
Catherine Edelveis
16.9

Find out how to implement CDS into your Spring Boot project for startup and footprint reduction.

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Compilation in Java: JIT vs AOT
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May 13, 2024
Dmitry Chuyko
15.4

Learn about two approaches to compiling Java applications, their benefits for performance and drawbacks.

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How to use CRaC with Spring Boot apps in a Docker container
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Mar 14, 2024
Dmitry Chuyko
6.3

Discover how to use CRaC with Java applications in containers

Announcements
BellSoft releases Alpaquita Containers with Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint support
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Mar 14, 2024
Aleksei Voitylov
6.9

Find oout about Alpaquita containers with CRaC support for instant Java application startup

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A novel GraalVM optimization for faster native images startup
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Jan 23, 2024
Peter Zhelezniakov
4.3

A new GraalVM improvement provides accelerated startup of native images.

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A guide to using virtual threads with Spring Boot
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Dec 14, 2023
Catherine Edelveis
6.7

Discover how to implement virtual threads to your Spring Boot project and measure the performance improvement.

Announcements
New Spring Boot 3.2 version goes GA
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Nov 24, 2023
Dmitry Chuyko
5.7

Find out about new features including CRaC and virtual threads support in Spring Boot 3.2.

Announcements
BellSoft releases Liberica JDK LTS 17 and 21 with Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint (CRaC) for fast startup
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Nov 6, 2023
Aleksei Voitylov
4.9

Discover how to work with Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint to accelerate Java application startup.

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How to reduce Java application startup time
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Oct 12, 2023
Dmitry Chuyko
13.7

Discover ways to reduce Java application startup time and reach peak performance faster.

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7 tips to optimize Java performance on Kubernetes
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Oct 5, 2023
Dmitry Chuyko
13.9

Find out how to increase the performance of your Java apps running in Kubernetes clusters.

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BellSoft brings the performance of JVM 17 to JDK 11 with Liberica JDK Performance Edition
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Aug 1, 2023
Aleksei Voitylov
5.7

Supercharge JDK 11 with JVM 17 without code changes using Liberica JDK Performance Edition

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Application cost reduction with Arm servers
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Jun 5, 2023
Dmitry Chuyko
14.6

Find out about the capabilities of modern Arm processors and how your applications will benefit from them

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Guide to JVM memory configuration options
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Apr 27, 2023
Dmitry Chuyko
13.2

Discover useful JVM flags for memory consumption tuning

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How to choose Liberica JDK flavor
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Mar 30, 2023
Dmitry Chuyko
8.7

Learn how to select a Liberica JDK configuration for your project.

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A guide to GraalVM — a next-generation JVM
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Dec 1, 2022
Dmitry Chuyko
16.2

Discover GraalVM, highly performant runtime for cloud-native polyglot programs

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Alpaquita Linux performance — the race is on!
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Oct 14, 2022
Dmitry Chuyko
26.5

Discover a comparative performance study of popular Linux distributions, including Alpaquita Linux

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Garbage Collection in Java
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Sep 7, 2022
Dmitry Chuyko
24.6

Learn about garbage collection in Java, various GC in=mplementations, and best practices for GC tuning

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Avoiding side effects of Java containerization
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Sep 1, 2022
Oleg Chi
16.0

Learn how to avoid typical mistakes of containerization leading to decreased performance and huge cloud bills

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