Mastering GC: tame the beast and make it your best ally

Length: 60 minutes

Room: Room 1

Abstract

OpenJDK brings GCs with different characteristics and not always easy to understand. Those GCs allows the JVM to adapt to different workloads in terms of latency or throughput. I will explain how to tame those beasts and how to take advantage of them to improve your applications and resources.

Day & time

06 Wednesday, 9:00 – 10:00 AM

Intended audience

Intermediate audience attendee will learn the characteristics of each JVM GC, how to choose and how to tune depending on their workload/applications

• Jean-Philippe Bempel

  Developer and Java Champion passionate by performance, runtimes (JVM, CLR) and Mechanical Sympathy supporter, Jean-Philippe has more than 8 years experience in low latency trading systems. After He brings his expertise on the JVM at Criteo in order to optimize resources on thousand node clusters, He is now at Datadog to evaluate & improve both profiler & tracer agent. He is also committer on the OpenJDK's project JDK Mission Control.

  

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