So why do people keep building latency sensitive things in the JVM? And then they manage to get hugely popular?
Cassandra is a constant struggle with the GC. I’d guess the cost of running it is at least an order of magnitude greater compared to if it had been implemented in c++ or something more sensible.
Cassandra is a constant struggle with the GC. I’d guess the cost of running it is at least an order of magnitude greater compared to if it had been implemented in c++ or something more sensible.