Twitter's Quest for a Wholly Graal Runtime

Explore Twitter's innovative approach to optimizing its massive distributed system in this 50-minute conference talk. Discover how the social media giant is leveraging Graal technology to generate superior machine code, aiming to enhance Java performance and reduce CPU utilization across thousands of JVMs. Learn about the potential for significant cost savings in electricity, cooling, and server farm size through small but impactful performance improvements. Gain insights into the challenges and opportunities of implementing Graal in a large-scale production environment, and understand how these optimizations can be multiplied thousandfold in similar big systems.

[VDT18] Twitter's quest for a wholly Graal runtime by Chris Thalinger