Simon Maple
From ZeroTurnaround
Simon is a Developer Advocate at ZeroTurnaround, Java Champion, JavaOne Rockstar speaker, Virtual JUG founder and leader, London Java Community co-leader and RebelLabs author. Previously, Simon worked for IBM for 12 years, developing, testing and evangelising WebSphere Application Server. He is an experienced speaker, having presented at JavaOne, JavaZone, Jfokus, DevoxxUK, DevoxxFR, JavaZone, EclipseCon, IBM Impact, JDC, JMaghreb, JAX London and many more. When not traveling, Simon enjoys spending quality time with his family, cooking and eating great food.
Methodology & DevOps
Is your profiler speaking the same language as you?
Profilers are absolute beasts. And profilers might prove useful to pinpoint the performance issues in your Java applications.
By using profilers, developers are fortunate to find the root cause of an issue at hand. However, it requires effort to actually comprehend the data collected by the profiler. Due to the inherent complexity of the data, one has to understand how this data is collected. And thus understand how the profiler actually works.
During this talk we will go through the classic profiler features. What is a hotspot? What is the difference between sampling and instrumentation from the profiler point of view? What are the problems with either of those methods? What is the time budget of the application? And more!
I will also showcase a new kid on the block among the profiling tools: XRebel. This tool provides insight into application behavior and permits the developers to discover application level issues
Java SE
JRebel under the covers - how is it even possible?
This talk presents a number of conceptual and technical challenges that we discovered while building JRebel. At first, the JVM wasn't designed for live updates, so we will talk about the engine that mitigates the problem. Secondly, the diversity of Java ecosystem, created by the variety of application servers, the frameworks and tools, makes it challenging in creating a generic solution that would fit the majority of developers. We will see, how Java platform itself allows us to develop a solution by applying bytecode instrumentation mechanism.
JRebel does live code reloading to ensure that the developer can keep instantly alternating between the developing environment and the web browser, to save wasted time and increase the productivity flow.