Java 8 Performance and Tuning (TT3110-J8)

About this course:

In this course, you will learn the latest coding skills and techniques in Java 8 to develop benchmarks. You will also learn how to improve application and code performance, optimize your code, and much more.

The average salary of a Java Developer is $90,992 per year.

Course Objective:

• Metrics for measuring software performance
• Effect of OO design on software performance
• 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
• Two strategies for improving performance as a result of profiling data
• Five most common problem areas for good performance with Java
• Use the JDK to collect runtime profiling data
• 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
• JVM Architecture from the perspective of performance
• Work with Java language features that can impact performance
• 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

Audience:

Experienced Java developers who want to take their core Java skills and bring them to an advanced level.

Prerequisite:

At least six months of prior hands-on development experience working with Java is recommended