Presentation: "Java without GC pauses: keeping up with Moore's law and living in a virtualized world."
Track:
Future of Java
Time: Wednesday 16:50 - 17:50
Location: Fleming Room, Third Floor
Abstract:
Commodity memory and compute capacities have far outpaced the ability of Java platforms to consume them effectively. Application instances are able to utilize only a small and shrinking fraction of a common server's abilities before responsiveness, consistency and service level issues become hard to bear. The behavior of Garbage Collection is at the heart of this accelerating trend, and new trends towards virtualized systems and cloud deployments can be viewed either as further threats, or as opportunities for innovative solutions to a lingering problem. In this talk, Gil Tene (CTO, Azul Systems) will detail the practical considerations & limitations of current garbage collected systems, discuss the importance of solving the GC problem once and for all at enterprise scales, and explain how new virtualization technologies can finally deliver a robust solution, and lead us to a Java world with no more GC pauses.