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Podcast: airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien
Episode: Java Scalability Considerations
Description: An airhacks.fm conversation with Francesco Nigro (@forked_franz) about:
Netty committer and performance engineer at Red Hat,
discussion of Netty's history,
focus on low-level core components like buffers and allocators in Netty,
relationship between Vert.x and Netty where Vert.x provides a more opinionated and user-friendly abstraction over Netty,
explanation of reactive back pressure implementation in Vert.x,
performance advantages of Vert.x over Netty due to batching and reactive design,
detailed explanation of IO_uring as a Linux-specific asynchronous I/O mechanism,
comparison between event loop architecture and Project Loom for scalability,
limitations of Loom when working...