February 26-28, 2025
Montreal, Canada

Do you trust profilers? I once did too

Profilers are great tools in your toolbox, like debuggers, when solving problems with your Java application. I'll tell you some of their problems and a technique to cope with them in this talk.

There are many open-source profilers for Java, but they all have problems, I'll show you which and how to deal with them in this talk.

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Johannes Bechberger

SAP SE

Johannes Bechberger is a JVM developer working on profilers and their underlying technology in the SapMachine team at SAP. This includes improvements to async-profiler and its ecosystem, a website to view the different JFR event types, and improvements to the FirefoxProfiler, making it usable in the Java world. His work today comprises many open-source contributions and his blog, where he regularly writes articles on profiling and eBPF.

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