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Maybe WebAssembly Is the Next Evolutionary Step From Containers: Fermyon at InfoQ DevSummit Munich

Olimpiu Pop — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 08:08:00 GMT

During her presentation at the inaugural edition of the InfoQ Dev Summit Munich, Danielle Lancashire, principal software engineer at Fermyon and co-chair of the CNCF wasm-wg, hinted at WebAssembly containers as a greener alternative and a potential evolution from the current containerised approach to serverless computing.

By Olimpiu Pop

InfoQ Dev Summit Munich: How to Optimize Java for the 1BRC

Karsten Silz — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 04:00:00 GMT

Java applications passed the 1 Billion Row Challenge (1BRC) in 1.5 seconds. 1BRC creator Gunnar Morling detailed their optimizations at the InfoQ Dev Summit Munich 2024. General optimizations applicable to all Java applications cut the runtime from 290 seconds to 20 seconds. Getting to 1.5 seconds required niche optimizations that most Java applications should forego, except for possibly GraalVM.

By Karsten Silz