Marcus Hirt

Marcus is the project lead for the Open JDK JMC project. Once upon a time he co-founded Appeal, the company creating the JRockit JVM.

8 articles

There are challenges with Java profiling, and the need for profiling depends on application complexity and performance requirements.

Oct 18, 2021 Marcus Hirt

Since this month is Hacktoberfest, I thought it would be a good idea to talk about how to contribute to the OpenJDK Mission Control project.

Aug 9, 2021 Marcus Hirt

The latest release of JDK Mission Control was released! It may take time for downstream vendors to release binaries of JDK Mission Control.

Jun 25, 2021 Marcus Hirt

The 8.0.1-ga tag was just set in the jmc8 repository on GitHub, a patch update release, and will therefore not include any new features.

Jun 24, 2021 Marcus Hirt

With changes in the Java (and the computing) ecosystem, JFR has some loom-ing challenges to remain relevant for the future!

Nov 9, 2020 Marcus Hirt

I’ve gotten a lot of questions about continuous production profiling. Why to profile in production and why the heck leave it on …

Aug 17, 2020 Marcus Hirt

Learn some of the things you can do with Java Flight Recorder streaming, as well as some of the things you may want to avoid!

Jul 22, 2020 Marcus Hirt

Everything about JVM vendors & OpenJDK distributions, upgrading from one Java release to the next, and information on where to get the JDK …