An Oracle-developed, low-latency Java garbage collector geared to large heaps could move to the open source community, if a proposal to do so gets community approval. Votes are due by November 8.

For the Azure cloud, jaz takes over the configuration of the heap size and the garbage strategy, among other things. The tool uses AppsCDS and, in the future, Project Leyden for optimization.

1. Capture the heap dump. A heap dump is a snapshot of what’s in your Java program’s memory at a given point in time. It contains details about objects that are present in memory, actual data that is ...