Track: Java at the Cutting Edge
Location:
- Grand Ballroom A
Day of week:
- Wednesday
The latest and greatest in the Java ecosystem.
by Todd Montgomery
Ex-NASA researcher, Chief Architect, Kaazing
"Mr. President, we must not allow a Lambda gap!” Over 6 months ago, Java 8 officially arrived and filled the "Lambda Gap”.
While many projects are stuck on Java 7 (not to mention Java 6), there are some projects adopting Java 8. And even relying on the Java 8 feature set. And not just Lambdas.
So, what is it like using Java 8 in anger on a new greenfield project? If you could do things from scratch, how would your thinking change? Is Java 8 suitable for high performance? What...
by Tal Weiss
Co-founder and CEO at Takipi
Production debugging is hard, and it’s getting harder. With architectures becoming more distributed and code more asynchronous, pinpointing and resolving errors that happen in production is no child’s game. This session covers some essential tools and advanced techniques Java developers can use in their code to debug live servers and resolve errors quickly.
We’ll cover five techniques for distributed logging, and some of the pitfalls which make resolution much harder, and can even...
by Mike Barker
LMAX Disruptor maintainer, Duke's choice award winner
Building a financial exchange like the one that LMAX Exchange runs is unique challenge. Customers demand low and predictable latency at ever increasing volumes. Since its launch 4 years ago it has grown to a system that regularly spikes beyond 10K tx/sec with latency measured in the 100s of microseconds. Over that time at LMAX we've learnt a lot about software performance. Much to my disappointment it’s not all cache-line counters and bit twiddling. Many of our big wins have come from...
by Richard Kasperowski
QCon Open Space Facilitator
Open Space
Join Gil Tene, our speakers, and other attendees as we discuss the latest and greatest in the Java ecosystem!
What is Open Space?
Every day at QConSF, we’ll open space five times, once for each track. Open Space is a kind of unconference, a simple way to run productive meetings for 5 to 2000 or more people, and a powerful way to lead any kind of organization in everyday practice and extraordinary change.
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by Gil Tene
CTO and co-founder of Azul Systems
Java is fast. Really fast. But the memory layout of objects and arrays is an area where Java still inherently lags (in speed) behind the C family of languages.
This session introduces org.ObjectLayout and StructuredArray, a new Java collection library and an array class designed specifically to enable JVMs to optimize memory layout for arrays of objects in a way that closely matches the performance behaviors of arrays of structs in C. org.ObjectLayout works on any JDK (version 6.0 and...
by Todd Montgomery
Ex-NASA researcher, Chief Architect, Kaazing
by Gil Tene
CTO and co-founder of Azul Systems
by Charles Humble
by Mike Barker
LMAX Disruptor maintainer, Duke's choice award winner
by Tal Weiss
Co-founder and CEO at Takipi
The panelists will discuss Java performance subjects, bringing their specific experiences to bear. The discussion will compare Java with other runtimes and languages, and debate recent and future Java-specific performance subjects.
Tracks
Covering innovative topics
Monday, 3 November
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Architectures You've Always Wondered about
The newest and biggest Internet architectures
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Real World Functional
Putting functional programming concepts to work in the real world.
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The Future of Mobile
The future of mobile and performance improvements
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Continuous Delivery: From Heroics to Becoming Invisible
Continuous Delivery philosophies, cultures, hiccups, and best practices.
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Unleashing the Power of Streaming Data
This track explores a variety of use-cases, platforms, and techniques for processing and analyzing stream data from the companies deploying them at scale!
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Sponsored Solutions Track I
Tuesday, 4 November
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Engineering for Product Success
Architectures that make products more successful
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Reactive Service Architecture
Reactive, Responsive, Fault Tolerant and More.
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Modern CS In the Real World
How modern CS tackles problems in the real world.
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Applied Machine Learning and Data Science
Understand your big big data!
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Deploying at Scale
Containerizing Applications, Discovering Services, and Deploying to the Grid.
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Sponsored Solutions Track II
Wednesday, 5 November
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Beyond Hadoop
Emerging Big Data Frameworks and Technology
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Scalable Microservice Architectures
This track addresses the ways companies with hundreds of fine-grained web-services (e.g. Netflix, LinkedIn) manage complexity!
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Java at the Cutting Edge
The latest and greatest in the Java ecosystem
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Engineering culture
Successes and failures in creating an engineering culture.
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Next gen HTML5 and JS
How Web Components, the Future of CSS, and more are changing the web.
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Sponsored Solutions Track III