Discover hidden gems in JDK 9 through this 44-minute conference talk by Oracle JVM Architect Mikael Vidstedt and Intel Senior Staff Software Engineer Sandhya Viswanathan. Explore lesser-known but crucial technologies developed by Oracle and partners like Intel to enhance Java's performance, reduce footprint, and improve scalability. Learn about optimizations including support for larger vectors with enhanced vectorization, optimized math libraries, cryptography and compression acceleration, compact strings, and new APIs with optimized implementations. Gain insights into how these features benefit big data, cloud, microservices, HPC, and FSI applications. Delve into topics such as JShell, Garbage Collector improvements, Class Data Sharing, Java Flight Recorder, Mission Control, Unified Logging, and key performance optimizations including AVX512, Compact Strings, Heap Dump, Math and Crypto optimizations, and Software Acceleration techniques.