Douglas Hawkins

Northern Virginia Software Symposium

Reston · April 27 - 29, 2012

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Lead Developer Java Performance Monitoring at Datadog

Douglas Hawkins has been passionately developing software for the past 20 years.
Throughout Doug's career, he has focused on creating performance intensive applications
in Java ranging from bioinformatics to financial exchanges.

After 10 years as a Java developer, Doug transitioned to working on Azul's Java Virtual Machine.
Today, Doug continues his interest in building performance tools for developers as the
Lead Developer of Datadog's Java Application Performance Monitoring.

While Doug's passion for developing software remains, his true passion is in sharing his
interest in low-level details and JVM performance with others.

Presentations

Understanding Garbage Collection

Most of us don't want to go back to the days of malloc and free, but the garbage collector isn't always our friend.

Inside Android's Dalvik VM

Android is gaining popularity rapidly, but why does Android use its own implementation of Java?

Examining Java Byte Code

Ever wondered what byte code looks like? Wondered how type erasure
works? Or, wondered how other JVM languages can have all exceptions
unchecked?