Java 8 Performance and Tuning

Course Objectives

This “skills-centric” course is about 50% hands-on lab and 50% lecture, designed to train attendees in advanced development skills, coupling the most current, effective techniques with the soundest industry practices. Working in a hands-on learning environment, guided by our expert team, attendees will learn to:

• List possible metrics for measuring software performance
• Explain the effect of OO design on software performance
• List and describe types of benchmarks and the criteria that should be considered when constructing a benchmark plan
• Explore the most useful targets for profiling, and the most common tools/techniques for profiling
• Describe two strategies for improving performance as a result of profiling data
• List and explain the five most common problem areas for good performance with Java
• Use the JDK to collect runtime profiling data
• Successfully read the profiling data generated by the JDK to detect performance bottlenecks
• Instrument your own code to collect method execution time data
• Learn code optimization techniques relating to object management, exceptions, threads, and serialization
• Understand the JVM Architecture from the perspective of performance
• Examine and work with Java language features that can impact performance
• Understand optimizing data structures in Java
• Choose the correct Collection for the task
• Leverage the built in Collections algorithms to enhance your code performance and security
• Examine the many Java 8 features to understand their impact on performance

Course Prerequisites

This in an intermediate level Java programming course geared for experienced Java developers seeking to improve their Java application performance.

Follow-On Courses / Take After: Our core Java training courses provide students with a solid foundation for continued learning based on role, goals, or their areas of specialty.  Our Java developer learning paths offer a wide variety of follow-on courses such as:

• Continued Java & JEE training: Intermediate to Advanced Java, JEE Essentials, Java for Web, Spring / Spring Boot, Microservices / Web Services / REST, Reactive Java Programming / RxJava, Tuning & Performance, Design Patterns & More
• TDD / Test Driven Development, JUnit / Unit Testing, Agile development training
• Secure Java Coding / Java Security and secure application development training
• Mobile developer / Android training