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I went through a phase where I dove deep on the internals of the CLR runtime for C# and there’s a great book on the subject. Might need to find an equivalent for the JVM.

I know the garbage collection part of the runtime has had lots and lots and lots of research and papers and study

Story points are unique to the team that is doing the work. Basically, a 21 point story for me could be a 3 point story for you.

In of themselves, the points are not important. Just size the stories to some amount of points that is reasonable and then do a sprint. The objective is to get a sense of how much work can be done in a sprint, to help create forecasts of when work will be completed.

At this point, it’s the JVM that is the real value, not the language itself. It would be better if they started to emphasize that more.