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Peter Lawrey
4,723 viewsOn placing a higher value on things that you've either made yourself, or to which you’ve contributed towards making!

Explore the combination of Hazelcast and Redpanda for high-performance, scalable, and fault-tolerant applications reacting to real-time …

Younes Manton
12,727 viewsJava startup is a hot topic. Learn how we made Eclipse OpenJ9 start in milliseconds in the Cloud.

Frits Hoogland
22,783 viewsBatching for PostgreSQL JDBC is a property of the extended protocol. It uniquely allows you to send multiple statements in a single request.

René Schwietzke
4,276 viewsStrange runtime behavior when presenting different training data to the JIT. We show how we diagnosed and condense down to a few test cases.

Peter Lawrey
6,976 viewsStandard solutions for controlling CPU isolation for low-latency Linux applications are isolcpus and cgroups/csets. Each have their …

Frank Delporte
9,495 viewsFind out how the JVM handles many tasks that you, as a developer, don't want and need to take care of compared to other languages.

Peter Lawrey
7,452 viewsGenerate a highly efficient approach to generating an 8-byte lightweight identifier that is unique across many hosts.

Dive into an exclusive interview with Chris Newland, the creator of JITWatch. Explore JVM performance optimization, and gain expert advice.

Geertjan Wielenga
6,286 viewsDo you ever wonder what OpenJDK distributions and what Java versions your peers are using? What Java versions?