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Garbage Collector Performance under Load
The overwhelming majority of dynamic internet-facing applications are built on garbage collected runtimes such as Java and .NET. Garbage collection is popular because it promotes rapid application development. On the other hand, whenever a system is demonstrating unexpectedly poor performance, the garbage collector invariably surfaces as a possible suspect. Our advanced server analysis module even hooks into garbage collection performance monitoring on the .NET platform.
The reality, however, is that modern garbage collectors are very good.
Fact: Our company has been in business since 1999. In this time, no one can recall ever encountering a system with a performance problem that could … Continue reading »