Free and open-source software not only reduces operational costs, but reduces strategic and legal liabilities as well. Oracle’s Hotspot JDK is the perfect example where liabilities exclusively originate from the vendor’s behavior and its product’s non-FOSS nature.
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We tend to design business-critical systems to deal with extraordinary situations: natural disasters, human-induced incidents/accidents near data centers, or even acts of war targeting compute infrastructure. These occasions happen randomly from the designer’s perspective, so we need to have redundancies in place all the time to be able to deal with the fallout.
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In Part 1 of this blog post series, we discovered how the Java platform relates to others in terms of compilation and execution, we compared compilation strategies, and identified hot code in Java bytecode. Let’s continue the journey by exploring Java’s JIT internals.
Read moreGreat solutions are like essential civil engineering infrastructure elements: drinking water pipes, concrete foundations or electrical substations. If it works great, you can forget about its existence. The Java platform and its just-in-time (JIT) code compiler is very much like a civil engineering marvel. From time to time we forget about it and how important of a role it plays when it comes to Java software execution performance… until it breaks down.
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In Part 1, we have looked at some core systemd concepts, and general resource limit settings in Linux. Let’s put all of that to use by configuring isolation of resource consumption for PostgreSQL via systemd.
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Amazon once again introduced hundreds of new features for their public cloud platform, Amazon Web Services. Sysagnostic attended a re:Cap meetup, which is an event based on the original re:Invent 2024. The re:Cap was organized by SnapSoft, and took place in the SnapSoft headquarters. As our company focuses on cost-efficient solutions, this article hand-picks two topics related to cost efficiency that were mentioned during the 2024 re:Cap meetup or during the AWS re:Invent event.
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