February 2012
7 posts
Are You a Zen Coder or Distraction-Junkie? →
I try to be Zen, but lest be honest…
Feb 13th
MapReduce Patterns, Algorithms, and Use Cases →
Great overview, I particularly liked the striping trick.
Feb 10th
Suffering-oriented programming →
Interesting history of the creation of Storm.
Feb 9th
2 tags
Hypertable Routs HBase in Performance Test →
Check the comments for a reply from an HBase committer.
Feb 8th
1 tag
Let's Build Something Using Amazon's DynamoDB →
Interesting and critical take on DynamoDB
Feb 7th
1 tag
HeapAudit – JVM Memory Profiler for the Real World →
Interesting tool from Foursquare
Feb 4th
1 tag
Apache Apollo 1.0 Released! →
Congrats to @hiramchirino and the whole AMQ team!
Feb 3rd
January 2012
8 posts
Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action →
A must watch.
Jan 26th
1 tag
Handling Memcached failover →
Moxi looks like a nice proxy for memcached.
Jan 25th
1 tag
Octave: A Free, High-Level Language for... →
An open source matlab like tool. Hello linear algebra.
Jan 24th
The Rise of "Worse is Better" →
Simplicity over perfection, every time.
Jan 24th
Welcome to the Jungle →
A must read on the future of hardware parallelism from the author of “The Free Lunch is Over”
Jan 22nd
1 tag
Is it time to get rid of the Linux OS model in... →
Everything about I/O needs to be reexamined.
Jan 20th
1 tag
shuttler/nessDB - GitHub →
Interesting project simliar to LevelDB
Jan 12th
7 notes
2 tags
MongoDB's Write Lock →
Spoiler alert, MongoDB 2.0 kick some serious butt.
Jan 3rd
14 notes
December 2011
2 posts
2 tags
Replication and the latency-consistency tradeoff →
Interesting take on various replication schemes.
Dec 9th
2 notes
3 tags
The Case for RAMCloud →
This is where its all going. Looks a lot like Hbase to the extreme.
Dec 2nd
13 notes
November 2011
11 posts
1 tag
De-Confusing SSD (for Oracle Databases) →
Good overview of SSDs even if you don’t use Oracle
Nov 23rd
2 notes
1 tag
The Two Sides of the Interview Process Dance →
More interview gold by The Codist.
Nov 23rd
1 note
2 tags
High Availability for Mutable Shared State →
Great intro to design with actors
Nov 15th
How to Pick a Language →
A great review of a wide range of languages
Nov 14th
2 tags
Simple disruptor example in Scala →
Well that looks easy
Nov 14th
1 tag
In the Real World Memorization is Overrated →
Couldn’t agree more
Nov 8th
Why Concurrency examples are confusing →
Sometimes single threaded is the way to go
Nov 8th
1 note
How Khan Academy is using Machine Learning to... →
I love Khan Academy
Nov 6th
Producer/Consumer Tasks and the Scheduler →
Interesting insight into muti threaded apps and os schedulers.
Nov 6th
LMAX Disruptor: Fast Concurrent Ring Buffer →
A quick but good reality check on the Distruptor
Nov 6th
The second coming of Java  →
As SSDs end the I/O bottleneck dynamic languages are going to fall.
Nov 5th
October 2011
16 posts
1 tag
Mechanical Sympathy: Single Writer Principle →
Really the whole blog is amazing.
Oct 28th
1 tag
If You Interviewing Programmers Like This, You Are... →
Well said.
Oct 27th
2 tags
Java EE6 Events: A lightweight alternative to JMS →
Actors in Java EE6?
Oct 19th
7 notes
2 tags
Bringing Scalability to the Classrooms of the... →
Martin Odersky and Scala, helping the children.
Oct 15th
3 tags
Twitter: From Ruby on Rails to the JVM →
This is why I’m on the JVM.
Oct 13th
9 notes
4 tags
Everything I Ever Learned About JVM Performance... →
A great run down on GC and other tuning
Oct 10th
5 notes
1 tag
Optimizing MongoDB: Lessons Learned at Localytics →
Check me out
Oct 10th
1 note
Java Notes: Bitwise Operators →
Been leaning on this heavily today.
Oct 7th
2 tags
Node and Scaling in the Small vs Scaling in the... →
A great post on scaling, regardless of the Node Flame Wars of 2011
Oct 7th
13 notes
Innovation Starvation →
Neal Stephenson on innovation, all the more prescient in light of Steve Job’s death.
Oct 7th
2 tags
Yet more Performance Tuning →
Great video on using VisualVM for performance tuning
Oct 6th
4 notes
1 tag
Steve Jobs 1955-2011 →
Oct 6th
5 tags
Oct 6th
202,100 notes
3 tags
Overview of the Oracle NoSQL Database →
Looks a lot like #mongodb
Oct 5th
4 notes
4 tags
Write Optimization: Myths, Comparison,... →
Great comparison of LSM and COLAs. tl;dr COLAs rock!
Oct 4th
8 notes
1 tag
WatchWatch
Oct 4th
September 2011
13 posts
1 tag
Cassandra Write Performance →
A very interesting deep dive
Sep 29th
2 tags
What every Programmer should know about the memory... →
If you haven’t heard it about it already…
Sep 28th
8 notes
1 tag
jonathanpatt/sicp-kindle →
Finally, now I can read SICP on my kindle.
Sep 26th
4 notes
1 tag
Write Optimization: Myths, Comparison,... →
Good read on b-tree write performance, can’t wait for part two.
Sep 22nd
1 tag
Implicit tricks -- the Type Class pattern →
An interesting Scala pattern
Sep 20th
1 tag
Inspecting HotSpot JVM Options →
Find out exactly what flags are on. Incredibly useful!
Sep 9th
1 note