We will walk you through the performance analysis of common problems of Java workloads, point you to the best tools to perform your analysis, how to read their data, and best practices.

With more and more services running on the Cloud, improving the startup of Java applications is paramount. Java 8 and Java 11 introduced many new features, with AOT Compilation and AppCDS being two of the major ones geared towards startup performance. In this talk, we'll explore what AOT Compilation brings to the Java developer, where it fits in the Code Generation pipeline, how to use it, where it works and where it doesn't.