Java 11
Past Presentations
Low Latency Trading Architecture at LMAX Exchange
Building a financial exchange like the one that LMAX Exchange operates presents a unique challenge. Our customers trade over $2 trillion a year through our platform, while demanding low and predictable latency with ever increasing volumes of transactions. In this talk we will present an overview...
Scaling Instagram Infrastructure
Instagram is a social network mobile app that allows people to share the world's moments as they happen. It serves 300 millions users on a daily basis throughout the world. In this talk, we will give an overview on the infrastructure that supports its users on this large scale. Topics will...
Thinking Strategically About IoT
Cool? Useful? Disruptor? All of the above? IoT is having an impact on more and more industries. As the cost of instrumenting things and collecting data drops, the possibilities for what we can control and the kind of insights we can gather increase. Not only is IoT hardware cheaper and more...
OpenJ9 - Compelling Java for Cloud Workloads
Java's suitability for Enterprise computing is well known, but past success has created a new set of 'legacy' applications when the industry inflects, and the economics of computing drive towards new deployment models. Java's VM has demonstrably provided the flexibility and means for Java...
Interviews
Modular Java Development in Action
What's the focus of the work that you do at Luminis today?
I work as a software architect at Luminis, and I've been developing Java-based applications for more than 10 years. Currently I'm working on a system that revolves around personalized learning for Dutch secondary schools. We're building web applications and matching back-ends that do data analysis, all in order to improve education. We...
Read Full InterviewGraal: Not Just a New JIT for the JVM
Tell me a bit more about the projects that you're working on.
I spend most of my time working on TruffleRuby and a small portion of my time working on project Loom. TruffleRuby is an attempt to produce a high-performance Ruby implementation using a language implementation framework called Truffle. We developed the idea of Truffle; you shouldn't have to write a complicated compiler for your...
Read Full InterviewOrchestrating Robot Swarms with Java
Tell us a bit about the work that you do.
I've been in the software industry for just over 10 years now, working primarily as a software developer and team lead. I have worked mostly in Java across several industries, telecommunications, finance, investment, banking, pensions, and now in automation. I've seen lots of different business, and all the software problems tend to be...
Read Full InterviewHow the HotSpot and Graal JVMs execute Java Code
What is the work you're doing today?
I work at Morgan Stanley as a Java developer and architect. My main work is around APIs and API gateways. That includes working on architectural components like our cloud strategy, building API infrastructure and all kinds of Java related projects along the way. Besides focusing on the architecture side of things I'm still actively...
Read Full InterviewPerformance Testing in Java
What’s the motivation for the talk?
The talk is structured like a conversation between two senior engineers, to discuss performance issues and to showcase that you don’t necessarily need to have a lot of information in your head in order to start performance testing, and get the results.
Read Full InterviewScaling Instagram Infrastructure
QCon: What are the main problems you are focused on today?
Lisa: I am a software engineer on the Instagram Infrastructure Team. Our team’s main purpose is to keep the scalability of our systems up. While doing that, we identify both short term and long term fixes around scale. Additionally, we work closely with many other teams on the product side to help them to identify bottlenecks and...
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