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Swift - Under the Hood
Alex Blewitt introduces the history behind Swift, why it was created, how it differs from Objective-C and how Swift is compiled and executed under the covers.
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Unikernels: Who, What, Where, When, Why
Adam Wick explains the promise of unikernels (single-purpose, lightweight virtual machines) and shares experiences about when unikernels are appropriate solutions and when they are not.
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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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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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