How to Analyze Java Thread Dumps -
How to use thread dumps to find lock contention.
Taking advantage of cache coherence in your programs -
Sequential I/O, not sure how many times I can say it.
Are You a Zen Coder or Distraction-Junkie? -
I try to be Zen, but lest be honest…
MapReduce Patterns, Algorithms, and Use Cases -
Great overview, I particularly liked the striping trick.
Suffering-oriented programming -
Interesting history of the creation of Storm.
Hypertable Routs HBase in Performance Test -
Check the comments for a reply from an HBase committer.
Let's Build Something Using Amazon's DynamoDB -
Interesting and critical take on DynamoDB
HeapAudit – JVM Memory Profiler for the Real World -
Interesting tool from Foursquare
Congrats to @hiramchirino and the whole AMQ team!
Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action -
A must watch.
Moxi looks like a nice proxy for memcached.
Octave: A Free, High-Level Language for Mathematics -
An open source matlab like tool. Hello linear algebra.
The Rise of "Worse is Better" -
Simplicity over perfection, every time.
A must read on the future of hardware parallelism from the author of “The Free Lunch is Over”
Is it time to get rid of the Linux OS model in the cloud? -
Everything about I/O needs to be reexamined.