Unleash the Power of Open Source Java Profilers

Length: 60 minutes

Room: Room 1

Abstract

Profilers help to analyze performance bottlenecks of your application - if you know which to use and how to work with them. There are many open-source profilers, like async-profiler or JMC. This talk will give you insights into these tools, focusing on: - Understanding the basic concepts of profiling like flame graphs, ... - Usage of async-profiler and JMC - Advantages and disadvantages of the different tools

Day & time

Thursday, September 07, 9:00 – 10:00 AM

Intended audience

This talk is for experienced Java developers who want to get to start optimizing their Java applications: analyzing performance bottlenecks using open-source tools. The participants will get an overview of profilers and their basic concepts, allowing them to add profilers to their toolbox.

• Johannes Bechberger

  Johannes Bechberger is a JVM developer working on profilers and their underlying technology in the SapMachine team at SAP. This includes improvements to async-profiler and its ecosystem, a website to view the different JFR event types, and improvements to the FirefoxProfiler, making it usable in the Java world. He started at SAP last year after almost 3 years of research studies at the KIT in the field of Java security analyses. His work today is comprised of contributing to various profiling-related open-source projects and fixing bugs in profiling APIs, working on his API in the JEP Candidate 435.

  

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