StackHolder - Jakub Kubrynski

I used to attend Confitura (formerly Javarsovia) or at least watch videos from presentations. I even had a chance to speak on it 4 years ago and share my reflections about continuous integration. This year I also decided to try to organize myself and prepare presentation about profiling Java Virtual Machine. Few days after submitting abstract, my chat window blinks with Tomek Dziurko saying:  - "Hello! Confitura Organisation Commitee would like to invite you to join us. We don't give anything in return except satisfaction, but we take a lot of time. Are you in?" Of course it's great honor but also we've to remember that with great power comes great responsibility :) Finally after exchanging a few words I've decided to accept challenge and put my shoulder to the wheel! Now I can say that it was definitely great decision! Guys - if you're reading this post please know, that working with you is a huge delight! But I'm not going to sum up months of p...

I'm not sure I can be treated as a java master, but fortunately thanks to Warsaw Java User Group I had a chance to attend the 33 Degree Conference. Schedule looked very impressive as there were many rock-star speakers and outstanding talks. It was really hard to choose valid path, but after taking some hard decisions I've created the custom agenda. I've never liked keynotes, so let me start from regular talks :) I've already noticed that Estonia is quite unique in the market of superior Java tools - companies like ZeroTurnaround and Plumbr are doing really nice job. I like them especially when they are talking about as interesting things as JVM internals :) Nikita Salnikov-Tarnovski made very nice presentation titled How much memory do your objects really need?  Apart from the fact that he is showman the talk was really interesing! He introduced  java-object-layout  tool which can analyze object layout schema in different JVM's - another ...