Interview with Cliff Click of 0xdata on benchmarking. Recorded live at JFokus 2012.

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Show Notes

News

• Bean Validation 1.1
• Java EE 7 Roadmap
• Java JRE Update 7u7 and 6u35 available.
• Change to Java SE 7 and Java SE 6 Update Release Numbers
• JCP 2012 Award Nominations Announced
• Griffon JavaFX Plugin

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Events

• Sep 3-6, Herbstcampus, Nuremberg, Germany
• Sep 10-15, IMTS 2012 Conference,  Chicago
• Sep 12,  The Coming M2M Revolution: Critical Issues for End-to-End Software and Systems Development,  Webinar
• Sep 30-Oct 4, JavaONE, San Francisco
• Oct 3-4, Java Embedded @ JavaONE, San Francisco
• Oct 15-17, JAX London
• Oct 30-Nov 1, Arm TechCon, Santa Clara
• Oct 22-23, Freescale Technology Forum - Japan, Tokyo
• Nov 2-3, JMagreb, Morocco
• Nov 13-17, Devoxx, Belgium

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Feature Interview

Cliff Click is the CTO and Co-Founder of 0xdata, a firm dedicated to creating a new way to think about web-scale data storage and real-time analytics. I wrote my first compiler when I was 15 (Pascal to TRS Z-80!), although my most famous compiler is the HotSpot Server Compiler (the Sea of Nodes IR). I helped Azul Systems build an 864 core pure-Java mainframe that keeps GC pauses on 500Gb heaps to under 10ms, and worked on all aspects of that JVM. Before that I worked on HotSpot at Sun Microsystems, and am at least partially responsible for bringing Java into the mainstream.

I am invited to speak regularly at industry and academic conferences and has published many papers about HotSpot technology. I hold a PhD in Computer Science from Rice University and about 15 patents.

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What’s Cool

• Shaun Smith’s Devoxx 2011 talk "JPA Multi-Tenancy & Extensibility" now freely available at Parleys.