PANEL DISCUSSION + Live Q&A
Panel: Performance - What's Next?
A lot of the techniques and approaches that we use for developing and improving software performance are tried and tested rather than innovative. But what does the future hold - will be doing the same things in 5, 10 or 20 years time or will software evolve?
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Richard Warburton
Top Performance-Minded Java Engineer & cofounder of Opsian.com
Richard is a Software Engineer, Teacher and Java Champion. He is the cofounder of Opsian.com and has a long-standing passion for improving Java performance. He’s worked as a developer in different areas including Developer Tools, HFT and Network Protocols. He has written the book “Java 8...
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Sadiq Jaffer
Director at Opsian
Sadiq has for years consulted for multi-national companies designing and implementing highly scalable intelligent platforms. His experience has included deep learning systems, embedded platforms, desktop and mobile games development. He's delivered talks on performance at top software engineering...
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Howard Chu
Systems Level Developer & CTO @SymasCorp
Howard Chu has been writing Free/Open Source software since the 1980s. His work has spanned a wide range of computing topics, including most of the GNU utilities (gcc, gdb, gmake, etc.), networking protocols and tools, kernel and filesystem drivers, and focused on maximizing the useful work from...
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Nitsan Wakart
Performance Engineer - Consultant @DataStax & Chief Performance Consultant at TTNR Labs
An experienced performance engineer with decades of programming experience ranging from finance to commercial JVM implementations, Nitsan started writing software as a child and is unable to stop. A blogger, public speaker, open source contributor, instructor, JUG organizer and Java Champion,...
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Martin Thompson
High Performance & Low Latency Specialist
Martin is a Java Champion with over 2 decades of experience building complex and high-performance computing systems. He is most recently known for his work on Aeron and SBE. Previously at LMAX he was the co-founder and CTO when he created the Disruptor. Prior to LMAX Martin worked for Betfair,...
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Monica Beckwith
Java Champion, First Lego League Coach, passionate about JVM Performance @Microsoft
Java Champion Monica Beckwith is considered a subject matter expert, has several published articles and gets regular invitations to give talks on JVM/JIT Compilation/Garbage Collection (GC). She is also a JavaOne Rock Star.Monica has made various performance contributions to the Java HotSpot VM...
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Sadiq Jaffer
Director at Opsian
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Monica Beckwith
Java Champion, First Lego League Coach, passionate about JVM Performance @Microsoft
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