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When it comes to developing low latency software systems, the received wisdom is that you would be crazy to use anything but C++ because anything else has too high a latency. But I’m here to convince you of the opposite, counter-intuitive, almost heretica... (more…)

Almost all of Twitter’s services run on the Java Virtual Machine platform. We have a team of engineers who work on performance improvements to our own custom version of the OpenJDK JVM. We ar... (more…)