Java's new Z Garbage Collector is very exciting

Java 11 has recently been feature frozen and contains some really great features, one in particular we'd like to highlight. The release contains a brand new Garbage Collector, ZGC, which is being developed by Oracle that promises very low pause times on multi-terabyte heaps. In this article we'll cover the motivation for a new GC, a technical overview and some of the really exciting possibilities ZGC opens up.

Why would you look at that - I get to use the Java database category.