Track Overview

Performance & Mechanical Sympathy

Ensuring that an application performs at the expected level under differing loads is always a challenge for developers. This is made even more complex when balancing latency and throughput requirements against the cost of infrastructure or cloud.

In this track, we have presenters with deep knowledge of the best approaches to use to meet application performance goals. Discussions will cover both software techniques and how to work in sympathy with the underlying hardware to extract the most from it.

From this track

Session + Live Q&A Java

Java Flight Recorder as an Observability Tool

Wednesday May 18 / 09:00AM EDT

Please note: this presentation will not have a live Q&AJDK Flight Recorder (JFR) is one of the best sources of telemetry and monitoring data for the JVM. However, it has not achieved particularly widespread usage - many Java engineers do not use it regularly and those that do frequently only...

Ben Evans

Java Champion, Author of "Java in a Nutshell"

Session + Live Q&A Java

Understanding Java Through Graphs

Wednesday May 18 / 10:10AM EDT

Many people will know that when you use Java you compile your application using the javac compiler to a data structure called bytecode. Many people will also be familiar with a data structure called an abstract-syntax-tree, or AST, which is the way that the Java compiler represents your Java...

Chris Seaton

Researcher (Senior Staff Engineer) @Shopify

Session + Live Q&A Java

Using Shared Memory-Mapped Files in Java

Wednesday May 18 / 11:20AM EDT

Unsafe in Java 8Project Panama in Java 17 and Java 19Practical uses with code examplesSimple demo using PanamaEvent Sourcing using shared memory with Chronicle Queue

Peter Lawrey

CEO @Chronicle_SW

Session + Live Q&A Java

Jedi Wisdom for Cloud Performance: Sympathize with Hardware, You Must!

Wednesday May 18 / 12:30PM EDT

This is part 1 in a series of talks covering Padawan Monica Beckwith’s hands-on practical experience over the last two decades. Monica, who has trained with many Knights and a few Masters, will cover what it means to be sympathetic to the underlying hardware in Scaling Up and Scaling Out...

Monica Beckwith

Java Champion, First Lego League Coach, passionate about JVM Performance @Microsoft