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Conference: Nov 5-7, 2018
Workshops: Nov 8–9, 2018

Presentation: Performance Mythbusting Panel

Track: Performance Mythbusting

Location: Bayview AB

Duration: 1:40pm - 2:30pm

Day of week: Monday

Level: Intermediate

Persona: Developer, General Software

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Speaker: Monica Beckwith

JVM Perf & previous G1GC Perf Lead @Oracle

Monica Beckwith is an Independent Consultant specializing in optimizing the Java Virtual Machine and the Garbage Collectors for enterprise applications. She is a regular speaker at various conferences and has several published articles on topics including garbage collection, the Java memory model and others. Monica led Oracle's Garbage First Garbage Collector performance team, and was named a JavaOne 2013 Rock Star.

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Speaker: Ben Watson

Principal Software Engineer @Microsoft focused on High-Performance .NET

Ben Watson has been a software engineer at Microsoft since 2008. As a core developer of the Bing platform, he has been integral in building one of the world’s leading .NET-based, high-performance server applications, handling high-volume, low-latency requests across tens of thousands of machines for millions of customers. He is passionate about performance and spends much of his time educating teams on best-practices in high-performance .NET. In his spare time, he enjoys geocaching, LEGO, reading, classical music, and spending time with his wife and children outdoors in the beautiful Pacific northwest. He is the author of the books Writing High-Performance .NET Code and C# 4.0 How-To.

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Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft

Speaker: Sergey Kuksenko

Java Performance Engineer @Oracle

Sergey works as Java Performance Engineer at Oracle. His primary goal is making Oracle JVM faster digging into JVM runtime, JIT compilers, class libraries and etc. His favorite area is an interaction of Java with modern hardware what he is doing since 2005 when he worked at Intel in Apache Harmony Performance team.

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Speaker: Min Ni

Engineering Manager @Instagram

Min Ni is currently an engineering manager at Instagram, his team mainly focuses on Instagram server performance. Before he joined Instagram, he worked at Facebook infra team for 4 years. Min Ni got his PhD degree on computer engineering from Northwestern University in the beautiful Chicago area. His interests are in the area of high performance computing and large scale distributed system. During his spare time, Min Ni enjoys traveling and book reading.

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Speaker: Vinay Chella

Cloud Data Architect @Netflix

Vinay Chella is a Cloud Data Architect @ Netflix and Apache Cassandra MVP. He possesses a great understanding of Cassandra (C*), distributed systems and relational databases. As an Engineer and Architect, he has extensively worked on building distributed systems, highly efficient data access layers and performance tuning of C*. Vinay Chella has assisted several teams in successfully building next generation data access layers

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Speaker: Ioannis Papapanagiotou

Senior Software Engineer @Netflix

Ioannis Papapanagiotou is a senior software engineer at Netflix’s Cloud Database Engineering team. He holds a dual Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering and Operations Research. In the past, Ioannis has served in the faculty ranks of Purdue University (tenure-track) and NC State University and as an engineer at IBM. He has been awarded the NetApp faculty fellowship and established the Nvidia CUDA Research Center at Purdue University. Ioannis has also received the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship, Academy of Athens Ph.D. Fellowship for his Ph.D. research, and best paper awards in several IEEE conferences for his academic contributions. Ioannis has authored a number of research articles and patents. Ioannis is a senior member of ACM and IEEE.

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