Ben Evans Lightning Talk

New Relic recently published the results of their Java ecosystem research based on data sent to them by their customer's JVMs. Ben Evans, Java Champion and Principal Engineer at New Relic (as well as long-time LJC alumnus) joins us remotely from Barcelona for a lightning talk and Q&A about the results and what they tell us about Java usage in 2020.

Evolving Compilation with Graal

When Java was released in 1995 it was slow, a reputation it has carried for many years… Today Java can give performance that is comparable to C++ and can emit instructions that are more optimal than code which is statically compiled. But how?

This talk will explore practical examples and the subsystems that are involved in interpreting, compiling and executing a simple Hello World Application. We will dive into JIT compilation and the arrival of the JVM Compiler Interface (JVMCI) to explore how optimisations are applied to boost the performance of our application. We will discuss HotSpot, explore Graal and the JVM ecosystem to discover performance benefits of a platform 25 years in the making.

About the speakers

Ben Evans is Principal Engineer and Architect for JVM technologies at New Relic. Prior to joining New Relic, Ben co-founded jClarity (acquired by Microsoft) and was Chief Architect (Listed Derivatives) at Deutsche Bank.

Ben is the author of 5 books - "The Well-Grounded Java Developer", "Java: The Legend", "Optimizing Java" and the recent editions of "Java in a Nutshell". He is the track lead for Java / JVM at infoq.com, writes regularly for industry publications and is a frequent speaker at technical conferences worldwide.

Ben has been active in Free and Open Source Software for over 20 years, co-founded the AdoptOpenJDK initiative (with Martijn Verburg), and served on the JCP Executive Committee for 6 years.

James (Jim) Gough is an executive director and developer at Morgan Stanley, where he’s focused on building customer-facing technology. A Java developer and author, Jim first became interested in Java during his degree program at the University of Warwick; after graduating, he became a member of the London Java Community. Community has remained central to Jim’s contributions, which include working on the design and testing of JSR-310 and serving on the Java Community Process Executive Committee for several years. Jim’s a regular conference speaker and spent four years teaching Java and C++ around the world.

This is an online event starting at 7pm GMT. Attendees will be sent a link on or before the day of the event.

This event is organised by RecWorks on behalf of the London Java Community.

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