Crushing latency and getting the most out of your hardware.
Track: Bare Knuckle Performance
Location: St James, 4th flr.
Day of week: Tuesday
Track Host: 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 by identifying the need for a NUMA-aware allocator and allocation patterns, reduction of redundant instructions, reduction of the Java object header, prefetching patterns, redundant array checks in a loop and various other optimizations for the JIT compiler, the generated code, the JVM heuristics and garbage collection and collectors.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Monica was the JVM Performance Architect at Arm. Her past also includes leading Oracle’s Garbage First Garbage Collector performance team.
11:50am - 12:40pm
Does Java Need Inline Types? What Project Valhalla Can Bring to Java
Inline(value) types are the key part of experimental project Valhalla which should bring new abilities to Java language. It's a story not only about performance, it's also a story about safety, abstraction,expressiveness, maintainability, etc. But on this session we will talk about performance. Which performance benefits inline types bring to Java and how we could exploit it.
Sergey Kuksenko, Java Performance Engineer @Oracle
1:40pm - 2:30pm
Performance
Session details to follow.
Sanne Grinovero, Senior Principal Software Engineer @RedHat
2:55pm - 3:45pm
Understanding CPU Microarchitecture to Increase Performance
Microprocessors have evolved over decades to eke out performance from existing code. But the microarchitecture of the CPU leaks into the assumptions of a flat memory model, with the result that equivalent code can run significantly faster by working with, rather than fighting against, the microarchitecture of the CPU.
In this talk, Alex Blewitt will present the microarchitecture of modern CPUs, showing how misaligned data can cause cache line false sharing, how branch prediction works and when it fails, how to read CPU specific performance monitoring counters and use that in conjunction with tools like perf and bpftrace to discover where bottlenecks in CPU heavy code live. We’ll use these facts to revisit performance advice on general code patterns and the things to look out for in executing systems. The talk will be language agnostic, although it will be based on the Linux/x86_64 architecture.
Alex Blewitt, Author of Swift Essentials
4:10pm - 5:00pm
GraalVM Performance
Session details to follow.
Alina Yurenko, Developer Advocate for GraalVM @Oracle
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
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Machine Learning: The Latest Innovations
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Kubernetes and Cloud Architectures
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Evolving Java
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Next Generation Microservices: Building Distributed Systems the Right Way
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Chaos and Resilience: Architecting for Success
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The Future of the API: REST, gRPC, GraphQL and More
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Streaming Data Architectures
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Modern Compilation Targets
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Leaving the Ivory Tower: Modern CS Research in the Real World
Thoughts pushing software forward, including consensus, CRDT's, formal methods & probabilistic programming.
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Bare Knuckle Performance
Crushing latency and getting the most out of your hardware.
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Leading Distributed Teams
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Driving Full Cycle Engineering Teams at Every Level
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JavaScript: Pushing the Client Beyond the Browser
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When Things Go Wrong: GDPR, Ethics, & Politics
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Growing Unicorns in the EU: Building, Leading and Scaling Financial Tech Start Ups
Learn how EU FinTech innovators have designed, built, and led both their technologies and organisations.
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Building High Performing Teams
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Scaling Security, from Device to Cloud
Implementing effective security is vitally important, regardless of where you are deploying software applications