Kirk Pepperdine
From jClarity Ltd
Kirk has been working in high performance and distributed computing for nearly 20 years. His focus has primarily been on performance, working on architecting, developing, and tuning applications running on Cray and other high performance computing platforms.
Kirk now specializes in Java™, where he works in all aspects of performance and tuning in each phase of a project life cycle. Author, speaker, consultant, Kirk was recognized as a 2006 Java Champion recipient for his contributions to the Java community.
Architecture, Performance and Security
Using the G1GC
The G1GC has come a long way since it was first supported in Java 7 update 4. So much so that it will become the default collector in Java 9. In this session will we look at how G1GC works and how to tune it using information from the GC logs. Finally, we'll look at how it performs when used with Cassandra benchmark.