Patrick Uhlmann

I wondered how many request a simple hello world endpoint would be able to serve with Spring Boot out of the box. By default Spring Boot uses Tomcat and the setting server.tomcat.threads.max defines the number of threads available for concurrent request handling. By default up to 200 threads can handle requests. I used my playground application for the tests. My hardware: Dell XPS 13 9343 with 8 GiB memory and a core i7-5500U. [Read More]

I recently asked myself what the difference would be between running a Spring Boot Application in a Docker Container with a limit on resources like CPU or RAM between running it without limit. I used my playground application for the tests. Furthermore I decided to go with the spring-boot default plugin to build an image. My hardware: Dell XPS 13 9343 with 8 GiB memory and a core i7-5500U. This build of the docker container can be executed as follows: [Read More]

Recently I was investigating a performance problem in a Spring Boot application using Spring Data and Postgres. A request to load a list of items took half a minute. I quickly realized that loading 1'600 items issued 20'000 database requests. After a quick optimization that brought down the number of queries to less than 200 the request still took 15 seconds. I decided that it was time to use a profiler and was surprised to see that almost all time was spent in methods of the Hibernate Validator. [Read More]

Recently I decided to maintain an old Nextcloud installation of mine. I moved it to a new server and upgraded it from version 20 to 24 (step by step). I also enabled the groupfolders feature and moved some folders and files from a user to the new groupfolders. At first everything seemed to work. After a while I got some complaints about files that could not be opened with the web interface. [Read More]

I bought a Nokia 3310 3G. In the feature list it found that it supports importing contacts from a vcf file. However in practise it didn’t work. To save you some time researching, here the procedure: Login in the nextcloud webinterface and go to contacts Click on All contacts and then on settings Choose download. This will save a *.vcf file with all your contacts. The format of the vcf file is version 3. [Read More]