With the low-latency garbage collector ZGC, GC pause times are no longer a big problem in Java. With sub-millisecond pause times there are instead other things in the GC and JVM that can cause application threads to experience unexpected latencies. This talk will dig into a specific use where the GC pauses are no longer the cause of unexpected latencies and look at how adding generations to ZGC help lower the p99 application latencies.

Recorded for P99 CONF 2023.