https://javapro-en.svenruppert.com/authors/robert-statsinger/Recent content in Robert Statsinger on JAVAPRO InternationalHugoen-USThu, 10 Jul 2025 07:00:01 +0000https://javapro-en.svenruppert.com/actionable-intelligence-from-running-jvms/Thu, 10 Jul 2025 07:00:01 +0000https://javapro-en.svenruppert.com/actionable-intelligence-from-running-jvms/<h4 id="your-jvms-are-pretty-smart---you-should-listen-to-them">Your JVMs are Pretty Smart - You Should Listen to Them</h4> <p>People don’t watch or listen to their JVMs, which is a shame because they have a lot to teach.</p> <h4 id="background-developer-productivity">Background: Developer Productivity</h4> <p>Censuswide recently performed a survey of developers and asked them to divide up how they spend their time in aggregate. The mean results appear below:</p> <p><figure class="post-figure"> <img src="https://javapro-en.svenruppert.com/uploads/2025/03/01-censuswide-1024x464.png" alt="" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </figure> </p> <p>Columns 2, 4, and 5 are interesting for our discussion here and they tell us that the surveyed developers spend over 40% of their time on average on code maintenance, testing &amp; quality assurance, and vulnerability management activities. This article discusses how deriving runtime intelligence from your JVMs can help you shrink columns 2 and 5 (and also take column 4 down a notch) so that you can spend more time in column 1. :)</p>