Amazon Corretto, A Journey into Latency Reduction

We are excited to have Yishai Galatzer (GM of Amazon Corretto) and Kelvin Nilsen ( Senior Developer Engineer on the Corretto JVM team). Corretto is a multiplatform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK, supported by Amazon. Yishai is going to share his knowledge with us.

We will talk about the Corretto project, it’s principals, and walk through examples that drove performance gains, latency reduction, and cost reduction in some of the biggest services in AWS.

Yishai is a manager in AWS Developer Tools. His team builds and distributes Amazon Corretto, a no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of the OpenJDK. Corretto initially powered Amazon’s services, and in 2018 released for public consumption. Other teams build and operate AWS services such as AWS CodeCommit, and AWS CodeArtifact. Previously, Yishai worked on open source projects for Microsoft, leading: NuGet, MVC, MVC Core, WebAPI and Razor. You can find him on Twitter as @yigalatz or in Seattle, Washington.

Kelvin is a Senior Developer Engineer on the Corretto JVM team, currently focused on adding generational techniques to the Shenandoah garbage collector. Previously, Kelvin authored the original real-time Java specification, founded real-time Java startup company NewMonics, and architected the real-time Perc virtual machine.