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

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Gunnar Morling discusses his experiences in building high-performance Java applications and developing AI natively with Apache Hardwood.

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. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/49cwnoI Newsletter: Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter for your monthly guide to the essential news and experience from industry peers on emerging patterns and technologies: https://www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter InfoQ online certification cohorts: Online cohorts for senior engineers and architects, built around QCon talks. Join a 5-week confidential peer group to validate your approach and apply practitioner frameworks to the technical challenges you face at work. Learn more: https://certification.qconferences.com/ Upcoming Events: QCon AI Boston 2026 (June 1-2, 2026) Learn how real teams are accelerating the entire software lifecycle with AI. https://boston.qcon.ai QCon San Francisco 2026 (November 16-20, 2026) https://qconsf.com/ The InfoQ…

People in this episode

Guest: Gunnar Morling

Topics covered

• Java development
• high-performance applications
• data space
• execution engines
• AI development
• minimal dependencies

Keywords

• Java
• performance
• AI
• execution engines
• Apache Hardwood
• Parquet
• software development

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Confluent, Apache

Products: Hardwood, Apache Parquet

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