On Microsoft Windows, the task manager can show memory usage when a Java program is running. This mechanism gives a coarse-grained idea of a process’s total memory utilization.

But in a cloud native world, optimizing how a Java program’s logic is interpreted and run on cloud servers via annotations and other compilation details takes on new importance, he warns.

With only three times as much memory, the collector runs on average 17% slower than explicit memory management. However, with only twice as much memory, garbage collection degrades performance by ...

It was never the sexiest language, but for decades Java has been a mainstay of modern technology, and it's going to be with us for years to come.

The longer the JVM Flight Recorder runs, the more likely memory leak inducing objects are to be tracked. Furthermore, the longer these objects that cause a Java memory leak exist, and the more memory ...