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Beyond GC Pauses: Strategic Memory Tuning and Profiling for Scalable, Low-Latency Applications in Multi-Runtime Environments Modern systems run at a scale where every millisecond matters yet one of the most powerful forces shaping application performance remains both misunderstood and underestimated: garbage collection. Beyond GC Pauses is a comprehensive, cross-runtime guide that demystifies memory behavior in production systems and equips engineers with the clarity and control needed to build truly low-latency, resilient software. Drawing from deep technical exploration and real-world case studies, this book reveals how garbage collection influences tail latency, throughput, and reliability across the JVM, .NET CLR, Go runtime, and containerized cloud environments. Instead of isolated tuning tricks, it introduces a unified framework for understanding allocation patterns, diagnosing pause behavior, and designing memory-aware architectures that scale smoothly under pressure. Whether you're battling sudden latency spikes, wondering why a Kubernetes pod gets OOM-killed despite reporting ""free memory,"" or attempting to tune microservices deployed across multiple runtimes, this book gives you the complete picture from heap anatomy to pause mechanics, from profiling toolchains to cloud-native GC challenges. What You Will Learn✔ How garbage collectors actually work across JVM, Go, and .NET - and why their pause patterns differ ✔ Techniques to analyze allocation pressure, stop-the-world events, and hidden GC triggers in high-throughput systems ✔ How cloud environments, containers, cgroups, and autoscaling distort GC behavior - and how to tune for them ✔ Practical profiling workflows using jcmd, jmap, VisualVM, YourKit, pprof, PerfView, and dotnet-counters ✔ Strategies for managing memory in production: object pooling, allocation smoothing, off-heap storage, batching, and cross-runtime tuning ✔ Step-by-step investigative patterns for diagnosing GC-related incidents, with real case studies across JVM, Go, and .NET Who This Book Is ForThis book is designed for: Performance engineers and SREs responsible for tail latency and system reliability Backend engineers and architects working on distributed, latency-sensitive systems Platform and DevOps teams managing Kubernetes, containers, and memory-constrained workloads Developers working in multi-runtime ecosystems such as Java, Go, and .NET Regardless of your background, the book guides you from fundamentals to advanced diagnostic techniques with practical clarity and real-world focus. Why This Book MattersGarbage collection isn't the enemy unpredictability is. Across its chapters, this book shows you how to eliminate that unpredictability, uncover hidden pause drivers, and move from reactive firefighting to intentional, data-driven performance engineering. You will understand the relationship between runtime mechanics, allocation behavior, system design, cloud constraints, and observability all of which shape the real-world latency profile of your applications. The result is a blueprint for building fast, predictable, and scalable applications that perform consistently, even under demanding production conditions.

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