Background In this current era, Distributed Architecture has become de-facto architectural paradigm, which necessitates implementation of loosely coupled Microservices which would talk with each other via REST API Message Oriented Middleware As far as Message Oriented Middleware is concerned, Apache Kafka has become …

Background In today's contemporary world of enterprise software where massively used applications are expected to scale and run seamlessly at extreme high loads e.g. Scaling Hotstar for 25.3 million users, system performance becomes one of the key tenant of architecting high throughput, low latency applications along …

Background In couple of my previous articles I not only tried helping understand fundamentals of JVM memory management, but also delved deeper to understand how Garbage Collection works along with its optimization. So with this background, I am sure you would be convinced that behavior of garbage collection may have …

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 …