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Java toolmaker ZeroTurnaround has announced the general availability of its new Java profiler, XRebel. The company has been working on what it describes as an "always-on, interactive" profiler for ...

I'd like to buy a license for a Java profiler, both to have and use, and to improve my performance analysis skills. YourKit, one of the two (as far as I know) big commercial profilers is currently on ...

Application performance monitoring (APM) solutions provider Instana on Tuesday unveiled a new continuous production profiler for Java apps. AutoProfile, now in beta, is a built-in feature of the ...

In the world of IDE-based development, programmers can easily become detached from JDK and the underlying technology that makes their applications work. Here is a list of the five most useful Java ...

There is some overlap -- but they're fundamentally different. Java instrumentation will track each and every instance of a given metric. This can create performance issues. Java sampling involves ...

Learn how to optimize JVM and JIT compiler performance for better execution speed, memory usage, and resource utilization in your Java applications—and how to check your results. JVM optimization ...

Thomas Dullien discusses how language design choices impact performance, how Google's monorepo culture and Amazon's two-pizza-team culture impact code efficiency, and why statistical variance is an ...