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Java performance troubleshooting and optimization at alibaba

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ICSE-SEIP '18: Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice

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Alibaba is moving toward one of the most efficient cloud infrastructures for global online shopping. On the 2017 Double 11 Global Shopping Festival, Alibaba's cloud platform achieved total sales of more than 25 billion dollars and supported peak volumes of 325,000 transactions and 256,000 payments per second. Most of the cloud-based e-commerce transactions were processed by hundreds of thousands of Java applications with above a billion lines of code. It is challenging to achieve comprehensive and efficient performance troubleshooting and optimization for large-scale online Java applications in production. We proposed new approaches to method profiling and code warmup for Java performance tuning. Our fine-grained, low-overhead method profiler improves the efficiency of Java performance troubleshooting. Moreover, our approach to ahead-of-time code warmup significantly reduces the runtime overheads of just-in-time compiler to address the bursty traffic. Our approaches have been implemented in Alibaba JDK (AJDK), a customized version of OpenJDK, and have been rolled out to Alibaba's cloud platform to support online critical business.

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1. Software and its engineering
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ICSE-SEIP '18: Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice

May 2018

336 pages

ISBN:9781450356596

DOI:10.1145/3183519

Conference Chairs:
Frances Paulisch
Siemens Healthineers, Germany
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Jan Bosch
Chalmers University of Technology

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Chen ZChen PWang PYu GHe ZMai GChandra SBlincoe KTonella P(2023)DiagConfig: Configuration Diagnosis of Performance Violations in Configurable Software SystemsProceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering10.1145/3611643.3616300(566-578)Online publication date: 30-Nov-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3611643.3616300
Ottoni GLiu BLee J(2021)HHVM jump-startProceedings of the 2021 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization10.1109/CGO51591.2021.9370314(340-350)Online publication date: 27-Feb-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/CGO51591.2021.9370314
Yao Kde Pádua GShang WSporea CToma ASajedi S(2020)Log4Perf: suggesting and updating logging locations for web-based systems’ performance monitoringEmpirical Software Engineering10.1007/s10664-019-09748-z25:1(488-531)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2020
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