Application development has become much easier because of the availability of frameworks and application platforms. Developing scalable and highly performing applications is a major challenge in modern application development. Especially highly distributed SOA architectures and always larger systems make this task more and more challenging. The saying “Make it work first and make it fast later” is no longer valild. More and more scalability and performance problem cause software projects to fail or deliver behind schedules. This talk addresses the major principles of building highly performing and scalable applications. Common …

We all like puzzles and that is what this talk is all about, puzzles, Java, and performance. In this highly interactive talk we will look at a number of small benchmarks with interesting performance characteristics. In working through the puzzle we will discover how and why we’ve gotten the results that we have. You can think of it as a fun way to learn more about how the Java runtime environment works.

Applying Sun Java Real-Time System to  High-Performance Financial Systems, view how the Java RTS can enable financial program trading systems to execute time-critical trades without interruption from the Garbage Collector or other Interrupts.

Mark Thomas, a senior software engineer from SpringSource and the leading contributor to Tomcat security, talks about how security vulnerabilities are handled by the Tomcat team and how end users are served while preventing security problems.  Mark discusses how using an open source project has the following disadvantage: as soon as a new version is published, the new version can be reverse engineered and vulnerabilities can be discovered. Therefore, commits are not announced as security vulnerabilities. Once a release is available for download …

In this presentation from QCon London 2008, Bertrand Delsart discusses real-time (RT) computing requirements in banking, RT Java history, priority semantics, RT APIs, Determinism and NoHeapRealtimeThreads, RT Garbage Collection, soft vs. hard RT, deadline miss handlers, event-driven requests with deadlines, reducing context switches, and benefits of RT Java and the RT Garbage collector.
Bertrand Delsart is the technical leader for the Sun Java Real-Time System product. He worked mainly on the real-time memory management extensions and on the efficient implementation of the PIP semantic for …

In this presentation, Dan Pritchett addresses latency issues in web applications that should be dealt with from the beginning when the system is designed. Dan offers some practical solutions to latency.
Dan Pritchett is a Technical Fellow at eBay where he has been a member of the architecture team for the past four years. In this role, Dan interfaces with the strategy, business, product and technology teams across eBay Marketplaces, PayPal and Skype. Dan has over 20 years of experience at technology companies such as Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard and Silicon …

Harald Prokop (Akamai Technologies)–Since 1999, Akamai has built a large-scale distributed system with 30,000+ servers spread across 1000+ networks and 70+ countries. Akamai’s technology-at its core, applied mathematics and algorithms-manages the distribution of large content libraries and intelligently optimizes routes to accelerate dynamic sites and applications. This talk will focus on the design principles and architecture of the Akamai network and how it enables the Internet to deliver large libraries of HD content and accelerates dynamic transactions.