Title: Java in a World of Containers Abstract: Container technologies such as Docker are rapidly becoming the de-facto way to deploy cloud applications, and Java is committed to being a good container citizen. This talk will cover some of the new the tools and techniques for reducing container size (jlink, Alpine/musl support), for improving startup time and sharing of data between JVMs (AppCDS and ahead-of-time compilation), and the recent work that has gone into interacting with container resource limitations. Time: 25 min (can be extended to 45 minutes) Speaker: Mikael Vidstedt Microblog URL: Twitter: @MikaelVidstedt Recording me on audio and/or video: acceptable under a CC-BY-2.0 license Brief Bio: Mikael Vidstedt is managing the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) team at Oracle. Over the last 17 years he has been working all the various aspects of the Java and JVM technologies, focusing on everything from compilers and optimization to operating systems and server virtualization. He has worn many hats, including that of JVM tech lead and Architect. He is the Project Lead of OpenJDK Project “Portola”, providing a port of the JDK to Alpine Linux and the musl C library.