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Apr 4, 2022, 5 tweets

A deep Java performance talk that I don’t have enough context for, by @PeterLawrey

Project Panama is about replacing JNI. Meantime, if you want to share memory between processes cleverly and safely, you can use their chronicle-bytes library. #QConLondon

“If you go down to the low level for too long, you wind up writing systems that can’t be altered.” @PeterLawrey #QConLondon

Observability means being able to see wtf is happening.
In the case of this library, that means being able to debug and see something more meaningful than a memory address; and test and diff YAML instead of binary.

A common “question” format: “When you were developing this, did you consider [alternative that I just thought about]?”

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