- I became the JVM whisperer for a fairly large company a whole year out of college. JVM tuning is not that complex, nor is the Java memory model. Shipilev's talk on the JMM[1] is almost everything you could ever need to know, and you can refer to it when you need it.
- That you actually can meaningfully tune the JVM GC is something you can't say about a lot of the alternatives. Like, I love the CLR, but the "self-tuning" nature of the garbage collector has bitten me more than once in the past.
- I became the JVM whisperer for a fairly large company a whole year out of college. JVM tuning is not that complex, nor is the Java memory model. Shipilev's talk on the JMM[1] is almost everything you could ever need to know, and you can refer to it when you need it.
- That you actually can meaningfully tune the JVM GC is something you can't say about a lot of the alternatives. Like, I love the CLR, but the "self-tuning" nature of the garbage collector has bitten me more than once in the past.
[1] - https://shipilev.net/blog/2014/jmm-pragmatics/