John is a keen developer and Matlab guru. John has performed research and development in many languages for 15 years, on various platforms from micro controllers, robots, simulations, desktop applications and web services.
Talks I've Given
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Are you better than a Coin Toss? Presented by Richard Warburton and John Oliver
Featuring John Oliver
So you’re a big data and distributed systems “expert”, you’ve collected 500 billion data points, thrown it into sci-lib-of-the-week, you’re using Hadoop, backing onto those cool AWS GPU instances, let it grind away for days and its spit out the answer to life the universe and everything. But is...
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Garbage Collection - The Useful Parts
Featuring Martijn Verburg and John Oliver
This presentation will give the busy Java/JVM developer an overview of how Garbage Collection in the JVM works and the common collectors that are used. We'll also cover how to read and interpret the scary log format and most importantly, offer strategies to deal with badly behaving memory...
java jvm garbage-collection