For our September JUG event, Ron Kleinman (Lead Product Technologist) and SriSatish Ambati (Partner Development Engineer) from Azul Systems will give a presentation on what are inherently Java limitations versus what limitations are placed on Java based on the hardware platform.

Azul Systems is the maker of enterprise server appliances that increase the performance of Java apps 5-50 times - guaranteed! How can they make such a claim? Well, apparently 864 processor cores and 768 GB of memory in a flat SMP configuration seem to do the trick.

In the spirit of making the presentation hands-on/interactive we will have access to one of their boxes through the internet to test things out. We can break into teams to see how overall performance and thread behavior can be optimized and monitored - i.e. to get a sense of the actual capabilities offered by their beast. Who knows, they may even bring in a real box just for fun!

It gets better. John B. Gallagher (Director of Marketing) from Azul also offered to sponsor pizza/sodas/beer - and there might even be some giveaways!

And, as in the past, one of you will win a free copy of IntelliJ IDEA, courtesy of JetBrains.

Note, this event is hosted at Marakana, and since the space is limited, I encourage you to RSVP sooner, rather than later.

See you on the 8th!

A bit about Ron:

Ron Kleinman is currently the Lead Product Technologist at Azul Systems. He has over 20 years experience in IT, including holding positions as varied as CORBA programming team lead, Chief Vertical Evangelist and Retail CTO.

Ron co-founded the JavaPOS initiative, teaches an evening section of OOA/OOD at a local area college, is the somewhat sheepish holder of several software patents and has been keynote speaker at multiple partner conferences and selected industry events. His current technology focus is on SOA, Virtualization, and the application of Java technologies to industry-specific needs.