Podcasts

Java’s Project Loom, Virtual Threads and Structured Concurrency with Ron Pressler

In this podcast Ron Pressler, technical lead for Project Loom at Oracle, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Charles Humble to discuss the project and its forerunner Quasar. Topics include the differences between concurrency and parallelism; what virtual threads are; current issues with JVM concurrency; the Loom developer experience; pluggable schedulers; structured concurrency; and more.

Akhilesh Gupta on the Architecture of LinkedIn’s Real-Time Messaging Platform

Charles Humble talks to Akhilesh Gupta, the technical lead for LinkedIn's real-time delivery infrastructure, and also LinkedIn messaging. They discuss the architecture behind LinkedIn’s real-time platform, its building blocks, the frameworks used and other technical details.

Thomas Wuerthinger on GraalVM and Optimizing Java with Ahead-of-Time Compilation

On this podcast, we're talking to Thomas Wuerthinger, a senior research director at Oracle Labs, leading programming language implementation teams for Java, JavaScript, Ruby, and R. He is the architect of the Graal compiler and the Truffle self-optimizing runtime.

Mike Milinkovich, Director of the Eclipse Foundation, Discusses the Journey to Jakarta EE 8

Today on the podcast, Wes Reisz talks with Mike Milinkovich, the executive director for the Eclipse Foundation. The Eclipse Foundation was chosen to govern the evolution of Oracle’s Java EE to Jakarta EE. The two discuss the project, the recent news about issues with the javax namespace, the challenges around bundling a Java Runtime with Eclipse, and the path forward for Jakarta EE 9 and beyond.

Oracle Labs’ Duncan MacGregor on Graal, TruffleRuby, & Project Loom

Duncan MacGregor speaks with Wes Reisz about the work being done on the experimental Graal Compiler. He talks about the use cases and where the new JIT compiler excels really well (compared to C2). In addition, MacGregor talks about the relationship of Graal to Truffle. The two then discuss a language MacGregor works on at OracleLabs (TruffleRuby) that is being implemented on the stack.