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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.

Ian Bull
on Apr 02, 2016

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32:13
Java

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.

Ashley Puls
on Mar 03, 2016

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01:08:26
Java

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.

Charlie Hunt
on Feb 11, 2016

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51:21
Java

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.

Norman Maurer
on Jan 06, 2016

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48:59
Java

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.

Tal Weiss
on Dec 17, 2015

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53:18
Java

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.

Emad Benjamin
on Nov 08, 2015

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01:31:53
Java

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.

Jessica Kerr
on Oct 17, 2015

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54:07
Designing Secure Services with Unikernels: a Tough Nut to Crack

Anil Madhavapeddy describes how to design and build "deploy-and-forget" cloud services that are specialized into unikernels, single-address space virtual machines.

Anil Madhavapeddy
on Aug 09, 2015

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56:57
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.

Sebastian Zarnekow
on Jul 31, 2015

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30:26
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.

Martin Eigenbrodt Alex Heusingfeld
on Jul 10, 2015

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45:56
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.

Marc Hoffmann
on Jul 01, 2015

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35:50
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.

Gil Tene
on May 10, 2015

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01:00:18