When a Kubernetes pod repeatedly restarts, you can pinpoint the cause by inspecting events, describing the pod, and checking previous logs, then identify OOM kills caused by memory limits in the deployment.yaml and resolve it by increasing the memory limit and redeploying the pod.
This article explains how to select a suitable Java base image (Alpine or Debian), decide between JDK and JRE, choose Oracle or OpenJDK, pick an appropriate JVM, configure signal handling for graceful shutdown, manage container memory limits, control DNS caching, and optionally compile native binaries with GraalVM.
This article explains that MySQL imposes no fixed row limit, discusses the common 5‑million‑row myth and Alibaba's 2 GB recommendation, shows a Java insertion test that slows after millions of rows, and highlights how InnoDB buffer size and memory constraints affect table performance.
