In this video, Jevgeni Kabanov creates a CPU model in Java in an attempt to explain the underlying mechanism of memory performance bottlenecks and the need for a correlated hardware, OS and JVM improvement.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Do-You-Really-Get-Memory

Cake mixes consist of a mix of things you already have in your cupboard plus a load of unnecessary, potentially harmful preservatives. They cost more than making cake from scratch, the resulting cake tastes worse, they take away people’s confidence in their ability to make their own cakes, and they don’t even save you any time. Hibernate has the same misperceived benefits and the same draw-backs. Gordon Ramsay wouldn’t be caught dead using any cake mix. As professional programmers, we should be more skeptical of generic frameworks like Hibernate.

This video explains why the NetBeans rich-client desktop framework has been chosen by so many organizations around the world. It saves years of development time in building any significant desktop application, by providing a modular framework that simplifies both developing and updating desktop applications. You will gain hands on experience relevant for real world scenarios based on experiences from experts in the field.

The servlet 3.0 laid the foundation for modern web applications with the asynchronous features, ease of development features and more. It was also the foundation for extensibility in the Java EE 6 platform. In this Jazoon Conference session, Rajiv Mordani presents the enhancements being made in Servlet 3.1 to optimize Java web applications in the cloud.

This video dives deep into concurrency and garbage collection. It starts with a quick look at the next generation of serialization techniques, as well as implementation pitfalls around UUID. It also covers the internals of the memory model, and common garbage collection algorithms and their tuning knobs.

This talk looks at one of several cloud hosting solutions for Java web applications: Cloud Foundry from VMware. It video explains how to write Java applications for the Cloud and how developers have to change the way they think.
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Gil Tene presents current trends in application memory, the problems with garbage collectors along with some related metrics, and how can Java prosper in a virtual world.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Java-without-the-GC-Pauses