Track: Java at the Cutting Edge

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The latest and greatest in the Java ecosystem.

Track Host:
Gil Tene
CTO and co-founder of Azul Systems
Gil Tene is CTO and co-founder of Azul Systems. He has been involved with virtual machine technologies for the past 20 years and has been building Java technology-based products since 1995. Gil pioneered Azul's Continuously Concurrent Compacting Collector (C4), Java Virtualization, Elastic Memory, and various managed runtime and systems stack technologies that combine to deliver the industry's most scalable and robust Java platforms. In 2006 he was named one of the Top 50 Agenda Setters in the technology industry by Silicon.com. Prior to co-founding Azul, Gil held key technology positions at Nortel Networks, Shasta Networks and at Check Point Software Technologies, where he delivered several industry-leading traffic management solutions including the industry's first Firewall-1 based security appliance. He architected operating systems for Stratus Computer, clustering solutions at Qualix/Legato, and served as an officer in the Israeli Navy Computer R and D unit. Gil holds a BSEE from The Technion Israel Institute of Technology, and has been awarded 27 patents in computer-related technologies. @giltene
10:35am - 11:25am

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...

11:50am - 12:40pm

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...

1:40pm - 2:30pm

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...

2:55pm - 3:45pm

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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4:10pm - 5:00pm

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...

5:25pm - 6:15pm

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.

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