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JVM Mechanics – A Peek Under the Hood
Gil Tene discusses JVM observation-based runtime optimizations, ordering and memory model rules, basics GC functions, memory management, and JVM mechanics.
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Running with the Devil: Mechanical Sympathetic Networking
Todd Montgomery discusses messaging: application level batching, UDP datagram size’s impact on performance, sendmmsg/recvmmsg, implementing asynchronous calls.
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Visualizing Java Garbage Collection
Ben Evans discusses garbage collection in Java along with some tooling for understanding and visualizing how it works.
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Go at Google
Rob Pike explains how Google designed Go to address major development issues they encounter while using other languages: long build times, poor dependency management, lack of robustness, etc.
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PHP on the Metal with HHVM
Keith Adams shares details on building HHVM, a PHP VM built by Facebook, along with lessons learned doing it and tuning it for high performance.
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How NOT to Measure Latency
Gil Tene introduces and demonstrates how simple and recently open sourced tools can be used to improve and gain higher confidence in both latency measurement and reporting.
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Timelines at Scale
Raffi Krikorian explains the architecture used by Twitter to deal with thousands of events per sec - tweets, social graph mutations, and direct messages-.
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Lock-Free Algorithms For Ultimate Performance
Martin Thompson discusses the need to measure what’s going on at the hardware level in order to be able to create high performing lock-free algorithms.
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(un)Common Sense
Mike Solomon shares some of the experiences and lessons learned scaling YouTube over the years.
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Performance Testing Java Applications
Martin Thompson explores performance testing, how to avoid the common pitfalls, how to profile when the results cause your team to pull a funny face, and what you can do about that funny face.
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High Performance Messaging for Web-Based Trading Systems
Frank Greco investigates WebSocket and how trading systems can be designed to leverage it for reliability, security and performance for desktop, mobile, datacenter and cloud environments.
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Virtualizing and Tuning Large Scale Java Applications
Emad Benjamin explains how to deploy and tune a JVM on a virtual infrastructure (vSphere), and how to tune the garbage collector in this environment.
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