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Concurrency Options on the JVM
Jessica Kerr covers some of the concurrency tools existing in JVM languages including ExecutorService, Futures, Akka actors, and core.async coroutines, providing advice on writing deadlock-free code.
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JVM Optimization 101
Sebastian Zarnekow discusses JVM internal optimizations, presenting how the JVM sees through code to apply techniques like inlining, loop unrolling and escape analysis at runtime.
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Microservices - Are Your Frameworks Ready?
Alex Heusingfeld, Martin Eigenbrodt discuss some of the challenges creating microservices on JVM stacks with examples using Dropwizard, Spring Cloud and Play2 Scala.
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Lambda Mechanics
Marc Hoffmann explores the technical details of compiled lambda expressions and method references which come with several performance benefits and could also be used for other JVM languages.
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Faster Objects and Arrays
Gil Tene introduces org.ObjectLayout, a new Java package designed specifically to enable JVMs to optimize memory layout for arrays and objects matching the performance of arrays of structs in C.
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Rubah: DSU for Java on a Stock JVM
Luís Pina, Luís Veiga, Michael Hicks introduce Rubah, a method for dynamically updating applications running on the JVM.
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Phosphor: Illuminating Dynamic Data Flow in Commodity JVMs
Jonathan Bell & Gail Kaiser introduce Phosphor, a dynamic taint tracking system for the JVM, describing the approach used to achieve portable taint tracking.
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Tardis: Affordable Time-Travel Debugging in Managed Runtimes
Earl Barr, Mark Marron discuss building time-travel debuggers for managed languages, implemented with Tardis, and enabling developers to investigate what happened prior hitting a bug.
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Faster Object Arrays
Gil Tene introduces org.ObjectLayout and StructuredArray, the APIs and design considerations that allow Java JDKs to match C on data structure access speeds.
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Tuning Large Scale Java Platforms
The session covers various GC tuning techniques, in particular focusing on tuning large scale JVM deployments and showing how to optimally size a platform for enhanced memory consumption.
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Nashorn - Native JavaScript Support in Java 8
Viktor Gamov presents and demos the latest state of Project Nashorn, a high-performance JavaScript engine available on the JVM.
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Threads, Needles, Stacks, Heaps
Ovidiu Dimulescu provides tips for working with local and remote JVMs, startup flags, analyzing and correlating thread dumps with CPU consumption, instrumentation, multi-tenant JVMs, memory games, etc
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