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Java at Speed: Getting the Most out of Modern Hardware
Summary
Gil Tene discusses some of the optimizations and capabilities that the latest crop of JVMs are able to apply when running on the latest servers. Also, the issues that these techniques can introduce when speed "right out of the gate" or "at rare but critical times" is an important consideration, as is often the case in FinServ applications.
Bio
Gil Tene is CTO and co-founder of Azul Systems. He has been involved with virtual machine and runtime technologies for the past 25 years. His focus areas include system responsiveness and latency behavior. He pioneered the Continuously Concurrent Compacting Collector (C4) that powers Azul's continuously reactive Java platforms.
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