René Schwietzke

CEO and co-founder of Xceptance. René has served as Xceptance’s Managing Director since 2004 including the continuous evaluation and development of test tools and services. He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany.

He has been working with Java since version 1.0. While working with and for two ecommerce and one quality assurance company, he gained plenty of insides into Java, performance tuning, and performance measurements that includes but is not limited to JIT, GC, and the JMM.

René regularly gives talks and training about programming in Java, GC and memory management, as well as testing and quality assurance.

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Table of Contents YouTubePodcast AppsContentFoojay.io, the website for the Friends of OpenJDK, is turning six years old. To celebrate, Frank Delporte headed to JCON in Cologne, Germany, and sat down with twelve members of the Java community to talk about ...

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If you want to know what I spoke about in @jcon_conference in Germany, here's an interview I did at the @foojayio podcast:

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