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Modular Java Applications with OSGi
Alex Blewitt introduces modularity in general, and the choices that OSGi made in bringing modularization to the JVM. He also looks ahead and asks how OSGi and Jigsaw will evolve in the future.
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Examining Low Pause Garbage Collection in Java
John Oliver takes a look at both G1 and Shenandoah, explaining how they work, what are their limitations, providing tuning advice. He also looks at recent and future changes to garbage collection.
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Java 9 - The (G1) GC Awakens!
Monica Beckwith talks about G1 pause (young and mixed) composition, G1's remembered sets and collection set and G1's concurrent marking algorithm, providing performance tuning advice.
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Hot Code is Faster Code - Addressing JVM Warm-up
Mark Price explores the life cycle of Java code, and how the JVM evolves the runtime representation of code during program execution, providing tips to make sure Java code runs fast.
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Understanding HotSpot JVM Performance with JITWatch
Chris Newland discusses performance-boosting techniques used by the JVM’s JIT and introduces JITWatch, a tool helping to get the best JVM performance for a code.
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Life of a Twitter JVM Engineer
Tony Printezis presents how services are deployed and monitored at Twitter, the benefits of using a custom-built JVM, and the challenges of the use of the JVM in an environment like Twitter.
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Node4J: Running Node.js in a JavaWorld
Ian Bull introduces Node4J and explores the performance characteristics and highlights the tools that help one develop, debug and deploy Node.JS applications running directly on the JVM.
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What It Means to be Just In Time
Ashley Puls explains what happens to bytecode inside the JVM. It begins with an overview of the Just In Time (JIT) compiler and discusses JIT optimizations such as method inlining and loop unrolling.
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Explorations of the Three Legged Performance Stool
Charlie Hunt explains the three performance attributes of throughput, latency and (memory) footprint and how each of these are influenced in terms of JVM garbage collection.
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Netty @Apple: Large Scale Deployment/Connectivity
Norman Maurer presents how Apple uses Netty for its Java based services and the challenges of doing so, including how they enhanced performance by participating in the Netty open source community.
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DIY Monitoring: Build Your Own JVM Performance Management Tool
Tal Weiss shows how you can easily write your own JVM agent to capture accurate performance data for virtually any type of application from Java microservices to reactive actor systems in Scala.
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Building and Tuning High Performance Java Platforms
Emad Benjamin covers various GC tuning techniques and how to best build platform engineered systems; in particular the focus is on tuning large scale JVM deployments.