WildFly performance tuning : develop high-performing server applications using the widely successful WildFly platform /: develop high-performing server applications using the widely successful WildFly platform. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Arnold Johansson, Anders Welén.
• Other Names: Johansson, Arnold; Welén, Anders
• Contents: Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Authors; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: The Science of Performance Tuning; Performance; Response time; Throughput; Utilization efficiency; Scalability; Performance tuning anti-patterns; The one-off; The wrong team; The lack of mandate; The clever developer; Software development and quality assurance; Software development with performance focus; Analysis; Design; Implementation; Performance testing and tuning; The iterative performance-tuning process; Test cases and iteration; Setting the baseline. Running tests and collecting dataAnalyzing the data; Tuning and retesting; Test data; Documentation; The environment of performance tests; The software life cycle; Upgrades; Metrics; Tuning an enterprise stack; Network; Hardware; Operating System; Java Virtual Machine; Middleware; Application; Summary; Chapter 2: Tools of the Tuning Trade; The key features of performance tuning; Profiling; Profiling in production; Profiling a JVM; Profiling and sampling; VisualVM; Standard features; The features of plugins; Connecting to a JVM; Local JVM; Remote JVM; Monitoring a JVM; Features; Test scenarios. A JMX connection to WildFlyLocal or remote WildFly server; Setting up VisualVM; Connection in VisualVM; Monitoring; OS tools; UNIX and Linux; Low CPU utilization; High CPU utilization; High resource contention; High disk utilization; OS X; Windows; WildFly tools; The Command Line Interface; The WildFly Management Console; JBoss DMR; JConsole; Generating load; Apache JMeter; Building a basic test plan; Improving the test plan; Recording a web session using the JMeter HTTP proxy; Standalone and distributed load generation; Summary; Chapter 3: Tuning the Java Virtual Machine; JVM. JVM memory areasThe JVM stack and native stack; The heap; Other JVM memory concepts; GC; JVM memory management with the GC; Configuring the JVM; Default settings; Client versus Server VM; The stack; The heap; Setting the maximum heap size; Setting the initial heap size; Determining what maximum size the heap should be; Determining what initial size the heap should be; Setting the size of the young and old generations; Setting the size ratio of Eden and the survivor spaces; PermGen; Large objects; Large memory pages; The java.lang. OutOfMemoryError error; From the heap; From the PermGen. Too large an arrayNot enough native threads; Memory leaks; A leak-finding Process; A step-by-step example using VisualVM; Types of GC strategies; The serial collector; The parallel collector; The concurrent collector; The G1 collector; Which collector to use; Setting VM parameters in WildFly; Having the relevant information available; VM parameters in production; verbose:gc; PrintGCDetails; PrintTenuringDistribution; loggc; Using tools; VM and GC stability; Summary; Chapter 4: Tuning WildFly; WildFly's history; WildFly's architecture; Various subsystem configurations.
• Publisher Details: Birmingham : Packt Publishing
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 005.133; COMPUTERS -- Programming Languages -- JavaScript; WildFly (Computer program language); Java (Computer program language); Application software -- Development; Java (Computer program language); COMPUTERS -- Programming Languages -- Java; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783980574; 1783980575; 1306901847; 9781306901840; 1783980567; 9781783980567
• Related ISBNs: 9781783980567
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