Twitter's Quest for a Wholly Graal Runtime

Explore Twitter's journey towards implementing a wholly Graal runtime in this conference talk from Voxxed Days Singapore 2019. Dive into the world of Java Virtual Machines and compiler technology as Chris Thalinger, a software engineer with over 14 years of experience in JVM development, shares insights on Twitter's efforts to improve performance and reduce CPU utilization. Learn how generating better machine code through Graal can lead to significant cost savings in massively distributed systems. Discover the potential impact of small performance improvements on electricity costs, cooling expenses, and server farm size reduction in large-scale environments like Twitter's infrastructure.