Background As software industry is embracing the new Microservice Architecture paradigm, myriad applications have been built with Spring Boot framework. By the time organizations have got its early versions of microservice applications in production, industry has found out newer and better avenues for further …

In one of my previous post I elaborated basics of JVM memory and also explained how garbage collection works. In this post we will try to understand various types of GC and how to tune and optimize them with a real world example. GC Taxonomy 1. Minor GC When garbage is collected from Young space it is called Minor GC. …

Everyone of us as Software Engineers would have experienced memory leaks, OOM errors in our Java/JVM applications? In order to dissect such issues it is extremely important to understand the whats' and hows' of JVM memory and its management. JVM - Memory Management One of the many strengths of the JVM is that it …