How AI optimization will debunk 4 long-standing Java tuning myths

Java is ubiquitous in online services, yet ensuring Java applications’ availability and performance remains a challenging task. In this talk, Stefano Doni, CTO at Akamas, shows how established industry approaches and widely-accepted beliefs about Java tuning are wrong and how AI breaks through long-standing limitations.

Understanding and Measuring CPU throttling in containerized environments

Francesco Fabbrizio, IT Performance Engineer at Moviri, introduces what is throttling and shows how popular open-source and enterprise monitoring solutions address this problem. He also tries to identify new metrics to better understand when throttling is happening. Finally, by the use of benchmark Java applications, he provides guidelines to effectively understand this important phenomenon and its impact on end-users.