Charlie Hunt is a JVM Performance Engineer at Oracle where he works on the performance of Java SE Java EE Java HotSpot VM and Java SE class libraries. He presents on Java performance at various events including JavaOne QCon Velocity and Dreamforce and he coauthored Java Performance (Addison-Wesley 2012). Monica Beckwith is an independent performance consultant optimizing customer applications for server class systems running the Java Virtual Machine. She has worked with Java HotSpot VM optimising the JIT Compiler the generated code the JVM heuristics and garbage collection and collectors. Monica led Oracle's Garbage First Garbage Collector performance team and was named a JavaOne Rock Star. Poonam Parhar is a JVM Sustaining Engineer at Oracle where her primary responsibility is to resolve customer-escalated problems against Oracle JRockit and Java HotSpot VMs. She loves debugging and troubleshooting problems and is always focused on improving the serviceability and supportability of the JVM. Bengt Rutisson is a JVM Engineer at Oracle working in the HotSpot VM team. He has worked on garbage collections in JVMs for the past ten years first with the Oracle JRockit VM and the last six years with the Java HotSpot VM. Bengt is an active participant in the OpenJDK project with many contributions of features stability fixes and performance enhancements.   . Language: English