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Profilers Are Lying Hobbits (and we hate them!)

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Summary

Nitsan Wakart discusses concrete cases in which profilers misguide, misrepresent and at times subvert the systems they aim to help us diagnose. Wakart is teaching you to unlearn your trust, and relearn skepticism.

Bio

Nitsan Wakart is Lead Performance Engineer for Azul Systems, working on Zing, and main contributor to lock free data structures library JCTools.

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Software is Changing the World. QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams.

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Mar 27, 2016

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  • Excellent presentation

    by Peter Veentjer,

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    Very useful information. Especially the explanation of falsely pointing to not so slow methods.

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