Java Performance Special Newsletter

Java Performance Special Newsletter

Latest Content, Top Viewed Content, News, Top Articles, Top Presentations In this special newsletter we bring you up to date on all the new content and news related to application performance management for Java and the JVM, on InfoQ. We are also maintaining a portal page for all this content on InfoQ at:http://www.infoq.com/apm/. Latest Content on InfoQ #1 5 Advanced Java Debugging Techniques Every Developer Should Know About (article, Jan 20, 2015) #2 Java 9 and Beyond. Oracle's Brian Goetz and John Rose Glimpse into the Future (article, Jan 04, 2015) #3 Pivotal Pulls Groovy/Grails Funding (news, Jan 19, 2015) #4 Eberhard Wolff on the Death of Java Application Servers (interview, Jan 18, 2015) #5 Google's Android Performance Patterns (news, Jan 08, 2015) Top Viewed Content on InfoQ #1 Under the Hood with a Prototype of Enhanced Generics for Java (news, Dec 29, 2014) #2 Teaching Kids Java Programming (article, Dec 22, 2014) #3 Faster Object Arrays (presentation, Dec 12, 2014) #4 Java Past, Present, and Future (presentation, Dec 20, 2014) #5 Typesafe survey: Java 8 Adoption Strong, Users Anxious for Java 9(news, Dec 08, 2014) Top News Why Spark Is the Next Top (Compute) Model Dean Wampler argues that Spark/Scala is a better data processing engine than MapReduce/Java because tools inspired by mathematics, such as FP, are ideal tools for working with data. Run Java 8 Code on .NET with IKVM A release candidate for IKVM with Java 8 support is now available. Leveraging Nashorn at Netflix Netflix recently hosted the Silicon Valley Java User Group to talk about Nashorn, "The Hidden Weapon of JDK 8." In this presentation the Netflix Partner Tools team described how they've started leveraging JavaScript in their services. Groovy 2.4 Released, Brings Full Android support Guillaume Laforge has released Groovy 2.4, bringing full Android support. LaForge says the new Android support "allows developers to write Android applications fully using Groovy, with much less boilerplate code than raw Java." Spring Boot 1.2.1 Released InfoQ speaks to Spring Boot co-creator Phil Webb about the latest release of Pivotal's convention over configuration offering for bootstrapping Spring based projects. Top Articles Spring 4 and Java 8 This article walks you through the new Java 8 features that are supported by Spring 4.0 and 4.1. The Fatal Flaw of Finalizers and Phantoms Finalizers and PhantomReferences should not be depended on, but sometimes they are necessary. In this article we reveal how to contend with the many issues surrounding finalization in Java. Designing a Highly Available, Fault Tolerant, Hadoop Cluster with Data Isolation In this article Monica Beckwith, starting from core Hadoop components, investigates the design of a highly available, fault tolerant Hadoop cluster, adding security and data-level isolation. InfoQ Talks to Azul Systems Gil Tene about Zing, Zulu, and New Releases Gil Tene of Azul Systems talks about shipping their Java 8 compatible release and the need for certified builds. Top Presentations Fastest Servlets in the West? The authors demonstrate Apache Tomcat's stability under high load, describe some do's (and some don'ts!), explain how to performance test a Servlet-based application, etc. Groovy in 2014 and beyond Guillaume Laforge presents the latest Groovy 2.3 release with its new features and performance improvements: "traits", new markup-based template engine, new code transformations, and more. Have Your Cake and Eat It Too -- Further Dispelling the Myths of the Lambda Architecture Tyler Akidau from Google demonstrates Google's Millwheel, a streaming system that promises low latency, strong consistency, and flexibility without relying on Lambda Architecture. 1.5 Million Log Lines Per Second: Building and Maintaining Flume Flows at Conversant Mike Keane presents how Conversant migrated to Flume, managing 1000 agents across 4 data centers, processing over 50B log lines per day with peak hourly averages of over 1.5 million log lines/sec.

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