The author shares his experience in server-side performance tuning through measured performance assessments, called optimizations. Each optimization discusses techniques to improve the performance and scalability of your code.
Every claim is substantiated with hard numbers and an experience-based evaluation.
Java Performance and Scalability, Volume 1, provides invaluable advice that you will, no doubt, find useful in your coding. Presented in 48 concise lessons that target the most common and critical performance pitfalls, this book offers a plethora of practical tips and solutions for boosting the performance of your programs. These lessons cover performance-critical areas such as memory management, garbage collection, caching, and multithreading. In this tutorial Johannes Wallroth gives a series of fairly simple examples in order to enable you to get a grasp of the possibilities and the syntax of the Java language. Take a step by step walk through the process of building a Java applet with programmer Bavo Bruylandt.