Software Performance Anti-Patterns Observed and Resolved in Kieker

Abstract

Software performance anti-patterns describe bad-practice solutions for particular problems. They help in sensitizing software engineering to such situations. In this paper, we focus on anti-patterns of monitoring and dynamic analysis frameworks, such as Kieker. These frameworks typically have high requirements on a low monitoring overhead and a high-throughput analysis performance. We describe three observed anti-patterns which influenced previous versions of Kieker with a high impact on the performance. Moreover, we present our solution for each of the anti-patterns.