Douglas Hawkins - Biography - No Fluff Just Stuff

Douglas Hawkins

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

A Peek Inside the JIT
Architecting with Garbage Collection in Mind
Concurrency Concepts in Java
How (Not) To Measure and Profile Java Performance
Introduction to VMs & Interpreters
Java (and CPU) Performance Puzzles
Java Performance Puzzlers
Java Performance Puzzlers - Part 2
JVM Mechanics
Understanding Garbage Collection
Understanding Java Garbage Collectors
What's in a Type? A Mathematical View of the Java Type System