Java: High-Performance Apps with Java 9: Boost your application’s performance with the new features of Java 9
by: Mayur Ramgir – Nick Samoylov
ISBN-10: 1789130514
ISBN-13: 9781789130515
Publication Date 出版日期: 2018-03-13
Print Length 页数: 194
Book Description
By finelybook
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.
Contents
1: LEARNING JAVA 9 UNDERLYING PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS
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
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
Authors
Mayur Ramgir
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). Apart from this,he is also a prolific business writer who has authored two international award-winning books,Unbarred Innovation: A Pathway to Greatest Discoveries and Evolve Like a Butterfly: A Metamorphic Approach to Leadership.
He was featured on the TV and in print media,including Fox News,NBC News,CBS News,Fox Business,Bloomberg International TV,Forbes,Inc. magazine,Daily Mirror,and The Huffington Post. He is also a contributing author of New York Daily Newspaper,the Software Development Times magazine,Newsmax Finance,AlleyWatch,Singapore’s top entrepreneurship magazine Young Upstarts,and several more. He is frequently invited as a guest lecturer at various technical and management schools. He has also been invited as a judge at an international innovation challenge competition (Living Talent) in Dubai in December 2017.
Nick Samoylov
Nick Samoylov graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology,has worked as a theoretical physicist,and learned to program a tool for testing his mathematical models. After the demise of the USSR,Nick created and successfully ran a software company,but was forced to close it following pressure from the government and criminal elements. In 1999,with his wife Luda and two daughters,he emigrated to the USA and has been living in Colorado ever since,working as a Java programmer. In his free time,Nick likes to write and hike in the Rocky
