Benjamin Darfler

Feb 19

How to Analyze Java Thread Dumps -

How to use thread dumps to find lock contention.

Feb 15

Taking advantage of cache coherence in your programs -

Sequential I/O, not sure how many times I can say it.

Feb 13

Are You a Zen Coder or Distraction-Junkie? -

I try to be Zen, but lest be honest…

Feb 09

MapReduce Patterns, Algorithms, and Use Cases -

Great overview, I particularly liked the striping trick.

Suffering-oriented programming -

Interesting history of the creation of Storm.

Feb 08

Hypertable Routs HBase in Performance Test -

Check the comments for a reply from an HBase committer.

Feb 07

Let's Build Something Using Amazon's DynamoDB -

Interesting and critical take on DynamoDB

Feb 03

HeapAudit – JVM Memory Profiler for the Real World -

Interesting tool from Foursquare

Apache Apollo 1.0 Released! -

Congrats to @hiramchirino and the whole AMQ team!

Jan 26

Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action -

A must watch.

Jan 25

Handling Memcached failover -

Moxi looks like a nice proxy for memcached.

Jan 24

Octave: A Free, High-Level Language for Mathematics -

An open source matlab like tool. Hello linear algebra.

Jan 23

The Rise of "Worse is Better" -

Simplicity over perfection, every time.

Jan 22

Welcome to the Jungle -

A must read on the future of hardware parallelism from the author of “The Free Lunch is Over”

Jan 20

Is it time to get rid of the Linux OS model in the cloud? -

Everything about I/O needs to be reexamined.