Chasing Efficient Java Development: From 1BRC to Developing Hardwood AI Natively



Posted on Mon May 25 2026 | 4:30 pm


Gunnar Morling, technologist at Confluent and Java Champion, shares his experiences with building high-performance applications in Java, especially in the data space. He shares insights from experiments with building durable execution engines, bootstrapping, and AI natively developing Apache Hardwood - a minimal dependencies Java parser for Apache Parquet.




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