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Erjang - With the JVM Under the Hood
Kresten Krab Thorup introduces Erjang, an Erlang VM based on the JVM, disclosing some of its internal workings and challenges building it.
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Are Your G1GC Logs Speaking to You?
Kirk Pepperdine explains how to use the G1GC logging to improve app performance while reducing its hardware footprint.
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Akka for Concurrency Works
Duncan DeVore reviews the challenges of concurrent programming on the JVM and explores Akka, a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed applications on the JVM.
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Priming Java for Speed at Market Open
Sponsored by Azul. Gil Tene discusses issues with dynamically optimized environments used for trading systems along with techniques for dealing with them, including JVM performance tune up tricks.
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Project Avatar
In this solutions track talk, sponsored by Oracle, David Delabassee discusses creating hybrid apps with Avatar, a platform for server-side development in JavaScript for the JVM.
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Garbage Collection is Good!
Eva Andreasson has a fairly entertaining and yet painful presentation around garbage collection that will probably will end with more questions than answers.
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Using Invoke Dynamic to Teach the JVM a New Language
Jonathan Worthington explains how invokedynamic works, how he has been using it while porting the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler to the JVM, and its performance impact.
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Java vs. C/C++ Performance Panel
Hosted by Erik Meijer, who runs the Cloud Programmability Team at Microsoft, the panelists answer questions on C/C++ and Java performance, contrasting the virtues of native vs. managed code.
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Enabling Java in Latency Sensitive Environments
Gil Tene examines the core issues that have historically kept Java environments from performing well in low latency environments and how it can perform now without trade-offs and compromises.
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Ratpack - Micro Web Apps for Groovy
Luke Daley introduces Ratpack, a micro web framework inspired by Ruby's Sinatra, built on Netty, Guice and Guava.
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A Shorter Path from Clojure to ClojureScript
Roman Gonzalez and Tavis Rudd discuss techniques for shortening the ClojureScript development cycle by using the same codebase for clj and cljs and automatically running tests on the JVM.
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The Future of the JVM
The panelists discuss the future of the JVM in the context of parallelism and high concurrency of tomorrow’s thousands of cores.