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Analyzing the Memory Usage of a Vaadin Application

Posted on Dec 17, 2015

Analyzing the Memory Usage of a Vaadin Application

Does your Vaadin application scale well? As Vaadin holds the UI state of every user on the server-side, the used server memory increases with every active user. So can our Vaadin application deal with an increased amount of users in terms of the used memory? We will find out! In this post I present tools and approaches to investigate the memory footprint of our Vaadin application.