Ben Evans

Ben Evans, a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat and co-author of "Optimizing Cloud Native Java," chats with Holly Cummins, also from Red Hat's Quarkus Team. They delve into performance engineering's blend of technical and psychological aspects, focusing on user expectations. The duo discusses how modern Java adapts to cloud native environments with microservices and containerized setups. They also examine the complexities in Java 17 and the exciting introduction of virtual threads in Java 21, reshaping concurrency and performance optimization.