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A Lite Rx API for the JVM
Sebastien Deleuze and Stephane Maldini talk about developing Reactive applications using Reactor Core 2.5, and using Flux and Mono types with various exercises.
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The Engineer's Guide to HotSpot JIT Compilation
Monica Beckwith discusses the performance introduced by adaptive compilation in the OpenJDK Hotspot VM, focusing on the internals of OpenJDK 8, the reference implementation for Java SE8.
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HotSpot under the Hood
Alex Blewitt presents how HotSpot represents Java objects in memory, how bytecode is compiled into native code to gain the fastest execution time, and how data structures have changed over time.
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WebAssembly: A New Compilation Target for the Web
Luke Wagner discusses the design of WebAssembly, how web developers can target WebAssembly, and future developments including language support and better integration with JavaScript and HTML.
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Escaping the Bikeshed with JSON-API
Rob Valk introduces the JSON-API 1.0 spec, taking a look at JVM ecosystem support for the standard with the katharsis.io library and its integration with the Mule runtime.
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Move Deliberately and Don’t Break Anything: Lessons from the Evolution of Java
Brian Goetz looks at some of the challenges and lessons of steering Java through major evolutionary changes, and a sneak peek at where the Java platform is headed.
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Modern iOS Application Security
Dan Guido talks about the current state of iOS attacks, reviews available security APIs, why they are not good enough, and the design of the Mobile Application Security Toolkit to address risks.
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Implementing Software Machines in Go and C
Eleanor McHugh discusses writing virtual machines using hardware emulation, including code snippets in Go and C.
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Observe, Enhance, & Control: VMs to Containers
Mitchell Hashimoto takes a look at VMs, which solution architectures worked there, and discusses why these architectures are no longer adequate and what are the solutions in a containerized world.
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Project Jigsaw in JDK 9: Modularity Comes to Java
Simon Ritter explains the impact Jigsaw will have on developers in terms of building their applications, as well as helping them to understand how things like encapsulation will change in JDK 9.
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Modular Java Applications with OSGi
Alex Blewitt introduces modularity in general, and the choices that OSGi made in bringing modularization to the JVM. He also looks ahead and asks how OSGi and Jigsaw will evolve in the future.
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Examining Low Pause Garbage Collection in Java
John Oliver takes a look at both G1 and Shenandoah, explaining how they work, what are their limitations, providing tuning advice. He also looks at recent and future changes to garbage collection.