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Some reviews of my JavaOne 2015 talks

Stephan Seigl reviewed my talks at JavaOne favourably here Has any one seen any other reviews of JavaOne? Cheers, Peter. ------------ Here are his reviews for my talks. Work with Hundreds of Hot Terabytes in JVMs (Peter Lawrey, Higher Frequency Trading and Per-Ake Minborg, Speedment) In this session Peter and Per-Ake showed nicely what benefits applications can achieve if they do not need to access the slow database for each request. Speedment basically allows to automatically read all data from a database to a memory cache and – this is interesting – provide a highly scalable approach to synchronize the data (Reactive persistent caching). Peter’s Chronicle Engine (mostly open source) allows to access this memory data is the most efficient way. This approach scales greatly. The examples they were showing had heap sizes in the range of tens of terabytes. Very nice talk. Presentation My Rating:  4/5 Legacy code and lambda (Peter Lawrey, Higher Frequency Trading) From the ti