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Azul Webinars
- The Java Evolution Mismatch: Why you need a better JVM - Functionality is great, but what about performance? Java started life as a toy platform and quickly became an enterprise tool. Early on, evolution in performance and scalability went hand in hand with functionality improvements. However, virtually all subsequent improvements to the Java platform were in features and scope, with basic performance remaining largely unchanged. The result is that modern Java apps are powerful and flexible, but their performance can be iffy. Application instances now have a hard time consuming even a small fraction of entry level modern servers without incurring unacceptable and detrimental effects. In this presentation, Azul CTO Gil Tene explains how the Zing Java runtime platform eliminates the evolution mismatch and allows enterprises to consistently and reliably power their applications, making full use of modern server capabilities.
- What's Inside a JVM? - Learn what a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is and what it does for your Java applications in this webinar. Eva Andreasson of Azul Systems provides insights into the inner workings of a Java Virtual Machine and some drill down on what compilers and garbage collectors do, so that you don’t have to worry about it while programming your Java application. In particular, you will learn about common optimizations, well established garbage collection algorithms, and what the current biggest challenge with Java scalability is today.
- What's New in Azul Zing Release 5.0? - Zing 5.0 is Azul Systems newest JVM, designed and optimized for x86-based servers running the Linux operating system. Zing 5.0 is a software-only product, and installs just like any other native JVM -- and runs on a number of standard Linux distros. In this Webcast, Shyam Pillalamarri will walk through the key attributes of Zing 5.0 -- including how it is packaged, changes from Zing 4.1, how Zing 5.0 manages elastic memory, integration with standard visualization and management tools plus how to get an eval download for your team.
QCon London 2012
- Understanding Java Garbage Collection and What You Can Do About It - Garbage Collection is an integral part of application behavior on Java platforms, yet it is often misunderstood. In this presentation, Gil Tene (CTO, Azul Systems) reviews and classifies the various garbage collectors and collection techniques available in JVMs today. Following a quick overview of common garbage collection techniques including generational, parallel, stop-the-world, incremental, concurrent and mostly-concurrent algorithms, he defines terms and metrics common to all collectors.
- Getting the Hiccups Out of Test Methodologies - Does your application run fine most of the time, but occasionally "gets the hiccups"? Do you measure and recognize such hiccups and stalls if and when they occur? In this presentation, Gil Tene (CTO, Azul Systems) will introduce simple, non-obtrusive methods for measuring and characterizing platform "hiccups" during application execution. Using the new jHiccup open source tool, Gil will demonstrate and chart commonly observed behaviors of idle, mostly idle, and busy systems, as well as common workload types that experience outliers due to garbage collection pauses and other runtime-induced delays.
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Oakland JUG
- JVM Memory Management Details - Balaji Iyengar, Senior Software Engineer, Azul Systems. Are you interested in learning what a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is and what it does for your Java applications? This presentation will provide insight into the inner workings of a Java Virtual Machine and some drill down on what compilers and garbage collectors do, so that you don’t have to worry about it while programming your Java application. In particular, you will learn about common optimizations, well established garbage collection algorithms, and what the current biggest challenge with Java scalability is today.
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QConSF 2011
- The Application Memory Wall - thoughts on the state of the art in Garbage Collection - Gil Tene (CTO, Azul Systems) discusses the Application Memory Wall and the likely causes of an observed decade-long stagnation in application instance memory growth and consumption. Gil analyzes the key technical challenges that have led to the emergence of the Application Memory Wall, reviewing the relevant state of the art in garbage collection within managed runtimes in general, and in commercial Java Virtual Machines in particular. Gil outlines the main technical problem areas that need industry attention and focus, and shows how solving these problems can lead to a post-Wall era - an era in which applications will once again be free to productively and naturally consume the abundant compute resources available in modern servers.
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Gartner ITxpo Barcelona 2011
- Java GC and the Application Memory Wall, Causes and Solution - Gil Tene (CTO, Azul Systems) discusses Java GC and the Application Memory Wall. Gil describes the state of the art in garbage collection within managed runtimes and in commercial Java Virtual Machines in particular. Gil outlines the main technical problem areas that need industry attention and focus, and shows how solving these problems can lead to a post-Wall era - an era in which applications will once again be free to productively and naturally consume the abundant compute resources available in modern servers.
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Saint Louis JUG Presentation
- What's Does a JVM Do? - This presentation will provide insight into the inner workings of a Java Virtual Machine and some drill down on what compilers and garbage collectors do, so that you don’t have to worry about it while programming your Java application. In particular, you will learn about common optimizations, well established garbage collection algorithms, and what the current biggest challenge with Java scalability is today.
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ISMM 2011
- C4: the continuously concurrent compacting collector - The Azul Pauseless Garbage Collector is now available in updated form as C4, the Continuously Concurrent Compacting Collector. This paper, originally presented to the International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM), describes the inner workings of the collector and how it is able to sustain high allocation rates without sacrificing response times or resorting to 'stop-the'world' collections. C4 is now available in its first-ever software-only commercial implementation for modern commodity x86 hardware as part of the Zing JVM.
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SpringOne 2GX Presentation
- Understanding Garbage Collection and What You Can Do About It - Garbage Collection is an integral part of application behavior on Java platforms, yet it is often misunderstood. As such, it is important for Java developers to understand the actions you can take in selecting and tuning collector mechanisms, as well as in your application architecture choices. In this presentation, Gil Tene (CTO, Azul Systems) reviews and classifies the various garbage collectors and collection techniques available in JVMs today. Gil concludes with some pitfalls, common misconceptions, and "myths" around garbage collection behavior, as well as examples of how some good choices can result in impressive application behavior.
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Minneapolis/Twin Cities JUG Presentation
- Minneapolis/Twin Cities JUG Presentation: No more Java scalability bandages! Eva Andreasson from Azul Systems has been invited back to introduce the Zing™ JVM as a follow up on her talk, 'What's Inside a JVM?'. This time she will give a deep dive into the internals of Zing – the world’s most scalable JVM and elastic Java runtime. Learn what you can do to eliminate key Java scalability limitations and allow your applications to grow to 100s of GBs in real time without hitting painful pause times. And, discover how Zing eliminates garbage collection issues, how tiered compilation works, and how Zing achieves non-intrusive production visibility.
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Orange County JUG Presentation
- The Art of Java Benchmarking - This presentation by Cliff Click, Jr. goes through some of the steps any programmer would go through to make a canned program run fast -- that is, it shows you how benchmarks get "spammed." He offers tips for any programmer who has tried to benchmark anything, including specific advice on how to benchmark, stumbling blocks to look out for, and real-world examples of how well-known benchmarks fail to actually measure what they intended to measure.
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Utah JUG Presentation
- What's Inside a JVM - This presentation will provide insight into the inner workings of a Java Virtual Machine and some drill down on what compilers and garbage collectors do, so that you don’t have to worry about it while programming your Java application. In particular, you will learn about common optimizations, well established garbage collection algorithms, and what the current biggest challenge with Java scalability is today.
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451 Group Webinar Presentation
- Variety, Velocity and Volume: Meeting the performance challenges of Big Data in the enterprise - Big Data is no longer just a challenge for large social media companies - enterprises can also benefit from understanding when and how to apply these technologies and architectures. In this Webinar, Matthew Aslett of the 451 Group reviews the taxonomy of Big Data and explain how organizations are employing new data management technologies and approaches to ensure that they turn the data deluge into more accurate and efficient operations. Gil Tene, CTO and co-founder of Azul Systems, then highlights in greater detail the infrastructure and building block choices for enterprise architects and how to address the performance, scalability, and velocity challenges of Big Data in the enterprise.
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Azul CTO Webinar Series Presentation
- Java GC and the Application Memory Wall » The "memory wall", first predicted in the mid 1990's in a paper titled "Hitting the Memory Wall: Implications of the Obvious", was supposed to have emerged by now. However, the typical application instance still only utilizes 5-10% of a modern server's capacity, and the percentage is dropping. In this Webinar, Gil Tene (CTO, Azul Systems) will introduce the notion of the Application Memory Wall, and discuss the dominant factors limiting the scale and performance of modern server application instances. Gil will show how GC behavior has come to dominate application scale and architecture decisions, highlight the resulting constraints and challenges in effectively utilizing current- generation servers, and discuss innovations that may make the 'Application Memory Wall' disappear in the near future.
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Seattle Java Users Group
- No more Java Scalability Bandages » Eva Andreasson from Azul Systems introduces the Zing™ JVM as a follow up on her talk, 'What's Inside a JVM?'. This time she gives a deep dive into the internals of Zing – the world’s most scalable JVM and elastic Java runtime. Learn what you can do to eliminate key Java scalability limitations and allow your applications to grow to 100s of GBs in real time without hitting painful pause times. And, discover how Zing eliminates garbage collection issues, how tiered compilation works, and how Zing achieves non-intrusive production visibility. Video also available.
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San Francisco Java Meetup
- JVM Internals: What does the JVM do? » Are you interested in learning what a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is and what it does for your Java applications? This video will provide insight into the inner workings of a Java Virtual Machine and some drill down on what compilers and garbage collectors do, so that you don’t have to worry about it while programming your Java application. In particular, you will learn about common optimizations, well established garbage collection algorithms, and what the current biggest challenge with Java scalability is today.
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Silicon Valley Cloud and Virtualization SIG
- Supercharging Your Applications Through Virtualization » Cloud platforms, both private and public, present new capabilities and challenges to managed runtime environments. Abundant, elastically available infrastructure resources are just within reach, but to make effective use of these resources, applications and runtime platforms need to consume them in an elastic fashion. In this presentation, Gil Tene (CTO, Azul Systems) discusses elasticity in the managed runtime context, describes common operational use cases for elasticity, and explains the technical challenges that remain for us to achieve seamless elasticity in cloud environments.
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QCon London 2011
- Java without GC pauses: keeping up with Moore's Law and living in a virtualized world » Commodity memory and compute capacities have far outpaced the ability of Java platforms to consume them effectively. Application instances are able to utilize only a small and shrinking fraction of a common server's abilities before responsiveness, consistency and service level issues become hard to bear. The behavior of Garbage Collection is at the heart of this accelerating trend, and new trends towards virtualized systems and cloud deployments can be viewed either as further threats, or as opportunities for innovative solutions to a lingering problem. In this presentation, Gil Tene (CTO, Azul Systems) details the practical considerations & limitations of current garbage collected systems, discusses the importance of solving the GC problem once and for all at enterprise scale, explains how virtualization technologies can actually be used to deliver a robust solution, and leads us to a Java world with no more GC pauses. InfoQ has posted the video here »
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LA JUG 2011
- What's Inside a JVM » Learn what a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is and what it does for your Java applications in this presentation by Eva Andreasson of Azul Systems. She provides insights into the inner workings of a Java Virtual Machine and some drill down on what compilers and garbage collectors do, so that you don’t have to worry about it while programming your Java application. In particular, you will learn about common optimizations, well established garbage collection algorithms, and what the current biggest challenge with Java scalability is today.
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Seattle JUG 2011
- What's Inside a JVM? » (video) Learn what a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is and what it does for your Java applications in this presentation by Eva Andreasson of Azul Systems. She provides insights into the inner workings of a Java Virtual Machine and some drill down on what compilers and garbage collectors do, so that you don’t have to worry about it while programming your Java application. In particular, you will learn about common optimizations, well established garbage collection algorithms, and what the current biggest challenge with Java scalability is today.
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