Java: High-Performance Apps with Java 9

Optimize the powerful techniques of Java 9 to boost your application's performance

Key Features

• Tackle all kinds of performance-related issues and streamline your development
• Dive into the new features of Java 9
• Implement highly efficient and reliable codes with the help of new APIs of Java
• Embedded with assessments that will help you revise the concepts you have learned in this book

Book Description

Java 9 which is one of the most popular application development languages. The latest released version Java 9 comes with a host of new features and new APIs with lots of ready to use components to build efficient and scalable applications. Streams, parallel and asynchronous processing, multithreading, JSON support, reactive programming, and microservices comprise the hallmark of modern programming and are now fully integrated into the JDK.

This book focuses on providing quick, practical solutions to enhance your application's performance. You will explore the new features, APIs, and various tools added in Java 9 that help to speed up the development process. You will learn about jshell, Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation, and the basic threads related topics including sizing and synchronization. You will also explore various strategies for building microservices including container-less, self-contained, and in-container.

This book is ideal for developers who would like to build reliable and high-performance applications with Java.

This book is embedded with useful assessments that will help you revise the concepts you have learned in this book. This book is repurposed for this specific learning experience from material from Packt's Java 9 High Performance by Mayur Ramgir and Nick Samoylov

What you will learn

• Familiarize with modular development and its impact on performance
• Learn various string-related performance improvements, including compact string and modify string concatenation
• Explore various underlying compiler improvements, such as tiered attribution and Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation
• Learn security manager improvements
• Understand enhancements in graphics rasterizers
• Use of command-line tools to speed up application development
• Learn how to implement multithreading and reactive programming
• Build microservices in Java 9
• Implement APIs to improve application code

Who This Book Is For

This book is targeted at developers who would like to build reliable and high-performance applications with Java.

Table of Contents

1. DevOps Continuous Deployment
2. Tools for Higher Productivity and Faster Application
3. Multithreading and Reactive Programming
4. Microservices
5. Making Use of New APIs to Improve Your Code

Mayur Ramgir has more than 16 years of experience in the software industry, working at various levels. He is a Sun certified Java programmer and Oracle certified SQL database expert. He completed an MS in computational science and engineering at Georgia Tech, USA (rank 7th in the world for computer science), and an M.Sc. in multimedia application and virtual environments at University of Sussex, UK. He has also attended various universities for other degrees and courses, such as MIT for applied software security, and University of Oxford for system and software security. He is the CEO of a software company, Zonopact, Inc. headquartered in Boston, USA, which specializes in bringing innovative applications based on AI, robotics, big data, and more. He has single-handedly developed Zonopact's flagship product, Clintra (B2B-integrated AI-assisted business management software). He is also the inventor of two patent pending technologies, ZPOD (an automated cloud-based medical kiosk system) and ZPIC (an AI-enabled robotic in-car camera system) Nick Samoylov is graduated as an engineer-physicist from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technologies and has even worked as a theoretical physicist. He has learned programming as a tool for testing his mathematical models using FORTRAN and C++. After the demise of the USSR, Nick created and successfully ran a software company, but was forced to close it under the pressure of governmental and criminal rackets. Nick adopted Java in 1997 and used it for his work as a software developer-contractor for a variety of companies, including BEA Systems, Warner Telecom, and Boeing. Nick's current projects are related to machine learning and developing a highly scalable system of microservices using non-blocking reactive technologies, including Vert.x, RxJava, and RESTful web services on Linux deployed in a cloud.