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Hands-On High Performance with Spring 5

You're reading from Hands-On High Performance with Spring 5 Techniques for scaling and optimizing Spring and Spring Boot applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788838382

Length 408 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Spring

Concepts

High Performance Programming

Authors (5):

Mehta

Subhash Shah

Shah

Prashant Goswami

Dinesh Radadiya

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Title Page

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Preface

1. Exploring Spring Concepts FREE CHAPTER

2. Spring Best Practices and Bean Wiring Configurations

3. Tuning Aspect-Oriented Programming

4. Spring MVC Optimization

5. Understanding Spring Database Interactions

6. Hibernate Performance Tuning and Caching

7. Optimizing Spring Messaging

8. Multithreading and Concurrent Programming

9. Profiling and Logging

10. Application Performance Optimization

11. Inside JVM

12. Spring Boot Microservice Performance Tuning

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Index

The java.util.concurrent package

In the previous section, we focused on Java's low-level support for threads. In this section, we will move on to look at Java's high-level thread support provided by the java.util.concurrent package. This package has various classes and interfaces that provide very useful functionalities to help us implement multithreaded and concurrent programming. In this section, we will mainly focus on some of the most useful utilities of this package.

The following diagram shows the high-level overview of the java.util.concurrent API:

Let's discuss the interfaces in detail.

Executors

Executor provides an abstraction layer over all the internal thread management tasks and manages the entire concurrent execution flow of the threads. An Executor is an object that executes tasks provided.

The Java concurrency API provides the following three basic interfaces for executors:

Executor: This is a simple interface that is used to launch a new task. It does not strictly require the...

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Authors (5)

Mehta

Mehta

Chintan Mehta is a co-founder of KNOWARTH Technologies and heads the cloud/RIMS/DevOps team. He has rich, progressive experience in server administration of Linux, AWS Cloud, DevOps, RIMS, and on open source technologies. He is also an AWS Certified Solutions Architect. Chintan has authored MySQL 8 for Big Data, Mastering Apache Solr 7.x, MySQL 8 Administrator's Guide, and Hadoop Backup and Recovery Solutions. Also, he has reviewed Liferay Portal Performance Best Practices and Building Serverless Web Applications.

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Subhash Shah

Subhash Shah

Subhash Shah is an experienced solution architect. With 14 years of experience in software development, he works as an independent technical consultant now. He is an advocate of open source development and its utilization in solving critical business problems. His interests include Microservices architecture, Enterprise solutions, Machine Learning, Integrations and Databases. He is an admirer of quality code and test-driven development (TDD). His technical skills include translating business requirements into scalable architecture and designing sustainable solutions. He is a co-author of Hands-On High Performance with Spring 5, Hands-On AI for Banking and MySQL 8 Administrator's Guide. He has also been a technical reviewer for other books.

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Shah

Shah

Pritesh Shah is a Solutions Architect at CentralBOS LLC. Pritesh is responsible for integrating technologies with best practices to translate business requirements into business change. He holds a degree in Computer Engineering from Dharmsinh Desai University. His expertise lies in, but is not limited to, designing, developing, deploying, and testing N-tier applications, and leading teams. He is very good at debugging problems and finding the best solution. Pritesh believes in constant improvement by quickly adapting new technologies suitable for building solutions.

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Prashant Goswami

Prashant Goswami

Prashant Goswami works as a Senior Consultant at KNOWARTH Technologies and handles enterprise projects with regard to software design, development, deployment, and building processes to provide customers with affordable software solutions. He holds a master's degree in Computer Applications from Gujarat Technological University. He is able to adapt quickly to any technology and has a keen desire for constant improvement. Prashant has proven experience in working with various technologies in web application development, design patterns, enterprise architectures, and open source technologies.

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Dinesh Radadiya

Dinesh Radadiya

Dinesh Radadiya works as a Lead Consultant and Architect at KNOWARTH Technologies, a leading open source software development company. He is a software architect with over 10 years of professional experience in developing web-based applications using various software platforms. He has proven expertise in leading and delivering software projects with varying degrees of complexity in domains such as ERP, HR, healthcare, CRM, and manufacturing. He has a keen interest in requirement analysis, progressive design, high-quality code, microservices, and refactoring.

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