Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to data synchronization and provide a method, system and computer program product for protocol optimization for client and server synchronization. In one embodiment a protocol optimization method for client and server synchronization can be provided. The method can include receiving server updates from a synchronization server, and applying each update to a client data store in parallel to requesting additional ones of the server updates from the synchronization server before completing the application to the client data store. In one aspect of the embodiment, receiving server updates from a synchronization server can include receiving server update subsets of a singular server update for a synchronization conversation from a synchronization server.

Abstract: A method and computer program product for garbage collection sensitive load balancing is disclosed for memory tuning for garbage collection and CPU utilization optimization An application is benchmarked across multiple different heap sizes to accumulate garbage collection metrics and the garbage collection metrics accumulated during benchmarking are utilized to compute both CPU utilization and garbage collection time for each of a selection of candidate heap sizes. One of the candidate heap sizes can be matched to a desired CPU utilization and garbage collection time, and the matched one of the candidate heap sizes can be applied to a host environment.