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>> THIS WEEK IN JAVA

Highlights this week: 

• A deep exploration of garbage collection’s CPU overhead beyond the well-understood pause-time metric. 
• An insightful analysis of how Project Leyden. The flamegraph-driven investigation is quite useful here.
• And a thorough benchmark analysis of Spring MVC performance across varying data set sizes, revealing that simple changes can yield up to 20% throughput improvements for smaller data sets. Very cool.