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Understanding HotSpot JVM Performance with JITWatch
Chris Newland discusses performance-boosting techniques used by the JVM’s JIT and introduces JITWatch, a tool helping to get the best JVM performance for a code.
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Life of a Twitter JVM Engineer
Tony Printezis presents how services are deployed and monitored at Twitter, the benefits of using a custom-built JVM, and the challenges of the use of the JVM in an environment like Twitter.
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Broken Performance Tools
Brendan Gregg focuses on broken tools and metrics instead of the working ones. Metrics can be misleading, and counters can be counter-intuitive. He advises on how to approach new performance tools.
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Java vs. C Performance
Cliff Click takes a look at Java vs C performance. He discusses both languages' strong and weak points and the programming context surrounding language choices.
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Trench Talk: Models and Friends
Yves Reynhout discusses models, how they're created and tested against scenarios, how they're useful, what distinguishes them from others, how they're visualized and communicated, etc.
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Logging Makes Perfect - Real-world Monitoring and Visualizations
Itamar Syn-Hershko shows using various technologies -Storm, Node.js, Riemann, collectd, D3.js, ELK, PagerDuty, Slack - to power Forter’s service and keep it highly available and under control.
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Full Stack Web Performance
Nik Molnar discusses how to use client and server side profiling tools to improve the performance of a web application, providing solutions to the most common performance problems.
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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.
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Go GC: Prioritizing Low Latency and Simplicity
Rick Hudson discusses the motivation, performance, and technical challenges of Go's low latency concurrent GC and why the approach fits Go well.
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Stream Processing in Uber
Danny Yuan discusses how Uber uses stream processing to solve a wide range of problems, including real-time aggregation and prediction on geospatial time series, and much more.
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Spring Boot for DevOps
Nicolas Frankel demoes some of the many important Non-Functional Requirements out-of-the-box that come with Spring Boot: monitoring, metrics, exposing those over HTTP.
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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.