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Grails and the JVM Memory Management

Regardless of the language used, if you are deploying to the JVM it is important to know some of the JVM internals. This session will provide significant details of how heap is divided along with the function of each component. We'll explore how dynamic languages put added gc pressures on the JVM and what to do about it.

We'll end with details on how to debugging production jvm issues with VisualVM and BTrace.


Ken Sipe

About Ken Sipe

Ken is a distributed application engineer. Ken has worked with Fortune 500 companies to small startups in the roles of developer, designer, application architect and enterprise architect. Ken's current focus is on containers, container orchestration, high scale micro-service design and continuous delivery systems.

Ken is an international speaker on the subject of software engineering speaking at conferences such as JavaOne, JavaZone, Great Indian Developer Summit (GIDS), and The Strange Loop. He is a regular speaker with NFJS where he is best known for his architecture and security hacking talks. In 2009, Ken was honored by being awarded the JavaOne Rockstar Award at JavaOne in SF, California and the JavaZone Rockstar Award at JavaZone in Oslo, Norway as the top ranked speaker.

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