Optimizing Long‑Connection Services with Netty: From Millions of Connections to High QPS
This article summarizes the challenges and optimization techniques for building a high‑performance long‑connection service with Netty, covering non‑blocking I/O, Linux kernel tuning, client‑side testing, VM‑based scaling, data‑structure tweaks, CPU and GC bottlenecks, and the final results of achieving hundreds of thousands of connections and tens of thousands of QPS on a single server.