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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.

Gil Tene
on Aug 03, 2014

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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.

David Delabassee
on Jul 20, 2014

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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.

Eva Andreasson
on Jul 08, 2014

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Understanding Latency: Some Key Lessons & Tools

In this solutions track talk, sponsored by Azul Systems, Gil Tene discusses pitfalls encountered in measuring and characterizing latency, and ways to address them using some new open source tools.

Gil Tene
on Jul 05, 2014

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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.

Jonathan Worthington
on May 15, 2014

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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.

Todd Montgomery Keith Adams Martin Thompson Gil Tene
on Mar 07, 2014

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Dao Programming Language for Scripting and Computing

Limin Fu introduces Dao, a lightweight and optionally typed programming language having a LLVM-based JIT compiler optimized for numeric computation, and a Clang-based tool generating C/C++ bindings.

Limin Fu
on Feb 27, 2014

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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.

Gil Tene
on Feb 18, 2014

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Continuum: A JS (ES6) VM Written in JS (ES3)

Brandon Benvie introduces Continuum, what it does, how it works, and why it's useful. Continuum maintains compatibility with all popularly used JS engines in use today (IE8, modern browsers, Node.js).

Brandon Benvie
on Jan 30, 2014

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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.

Luke Daley
on Dec 14, 2013

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Why Ruby Isn't Slow

Alex Gaynor explains how he solved the usual Ruby VM speed problems with Topaz, a high performance VM built on the same technologies that power PyPy.

Alex Gaynor
on Dec 04, 2013

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VMFest: Wrapping VirtualBox to Speedup Dev and Test Since 2010

Antoni Batchelli introduces VMFest, a PalletOps project used to turn VirtualBox into a lightweight cloud provider, good for developing cloud automation.

Antoni Batchelli
on Oct 16, 2013

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