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Life of a Twitter JVM Engineer - The Garbage Keeps Coming

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Overview

Explore the challenges and benefits of using the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) at Twitter in this 57-minute Devoxx conference talk. Gain insights into how Twitter deploys and monitors its services, which have transitioned from Ruby to primarily Scala. Discover the advantages of targeting the JVM for rapid development and deployment of reliable code, including automated memory management. Learn about the difficulties faced in troubleshooting JVM-based applications in production environments, and understand how Twitter's high data volume and stringent requirements push the JVM to its limits. Examine the benefits of Twitter's custom-built JVM with in-house features, and delve into the unique challenges posed by utilizing the JVM in Twitter's large-scale environment.

Syllabus

Life of a Twitter JVM engineer: the garbage keeps coming... Tony Printezis

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Devoxx

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