The Golden Path to SpringOne

In this episode

When writing a new Spring web app, teams often have some nagging scaling doubts:

• How many users can my app simultaneously handle?
• How fast will my @RestControllers dash out those JSON responses?
• How much memory, CPU, or I/O does my application need?
• How much money do I need to spend on hosting?

Surprisingly, there's very little advice out there on how to sensibly approach these questions in a practical way—apart from simply autoscaling random Kubernetes pods into oblivion.

In this #almostnoslides session, we’re going to use an IDE, a pen tablet, and a few libraries to get a deep, practical understanding of the following:

• Throughput and latency: How to (reliably) find out how many users your Spring app can handle
• CPU/memory/IO: How much (or how little) your app actually needs
• Hosting: What server your app needs

By the end of this talk, you’ll have learned solid load-testing processes and skills that make you never worry about scaling your Spring web apps again.