/** Local timezone for time calculations */
    protected TimeZone localTimeZone;
    /** Secure random generator for cryptographic operations */
    protected SecureRandom random;
    /** Whether to use command batching for improved performance */
    protected boolean useBatching = false;
    /** Whether to use Unicode encoding for strings */
    protected boolean useUnicode = true;

        
        // Restore normal operation parameters
        // Verify all registrations are still valid
    }
}
```

## 9. Performance and Optimization

### 9.1 Witness Event Batching
```java
public class WitnessEventBatcher {
    private final Queue<WitnessNotification> pendingNotifications;
    private final ScheduledExecutorService scheduler;
    private final int batchSize = 10;

### **Instrumentation**

#### **Audit**

*   Adjust batching audit webhook default parameters: increase queue size, batch size, and initial backoff. Add throttling to the batching audit webhook. Default rate limit is 10 QPS. ([#53417](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53417),[ @crassirostris](https://github.com/crassirostris))

- Implemented opportunistic batching (KEP-5598) to optimize scheduling for pods with identical scheduling requirements. ([#135231](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/135231), [@bwsalmon](https://github.com/bwsalmon)) [SIG Node, Scheduling, Storage and Testing]

* Webhook always retries connection reset error. ([#53947](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53947), [@crassirostris](https://github.com/crassirostris))
* Adjust batching audit webhook default parameters: increase queue size, batch size, and initial backoff. Add throttling to the batching audit webhook. Default rate limit is 10 QPS. ([#53417](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53417), [@crassirostris](https://github.com/crassirostris))

- EndpointSlice should not contain endpoints for terminating pods ([#89056](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89056), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim)) [SIG Apps and Network]
- Evictions due to pods breaching their ephemeral storage limits are now recorded by the `kubelet_evictions` metric and can be alerted on. ([#87906](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87906), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton)) [SIG Node]

* Log audit backend can now be configured to perform batching before writing events to disk. ([#60237](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60237), [@crassirostris](https://github.com/crassirostris))

- Kube-proxy: removed log warning about not using config file. ([#118115](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118115), [@TommyStarK](https://github.com/TommyStarK)) [SIG Network]
- Made Job controller batching of syncJob invocations enabled unconditionally (it was conditional on JobReadyPods feature before).

* Defaults for file audit logging backend in batch mode changed: ([#67223](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67223), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair))
    * Logs are written 1 at a time (no batching)
    * Only a single writer process (lock contention)

- EndpointSlice should not contain endpoints for terminating pods ([#89056](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89056), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim)) [SIG Apps and Network]
- Evictions due to pods breaching their ephemeral storage limits are now recorded by the `kubelet_evictions` metric and can be alerted on. ([#87906](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87906), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton)) [SIG Node]