Performance Summit London spring: How AI optimization debunks 4 long-standing Java tuning myths

Stefano Doni (CTO at Akamas) will speak at the Performance Summit London 2021 online conference, that will take place on February 23rd.

Java is ubiquitous in online services, yet ensuring Java applications’ availability and performance remains a challenging task.

So what is a performance engineer to do? AI-based technologies can help. An AI platform can take in all the relevant stack parameters, and metrics from monitoring tools, and generate target configurations that optimize for any given goal. That goal can be set to directly solve for high-level application performance target e.g. maximize payments/sec while keeping cost SLAs under a threshold. The emphasis shifts then from low-level JVM tuning to end-to-end, continuous high-level optimization.

In this talk, we show how established industry approaches and widely-accepted beliefs about Java tuning are wrong and how AI breaks through long-standing limitations.