Benjamin Darfler

May 04

vert.x – JVM Polyglot Alternative to Node.js -

This looks interesting

May 02

Know a Delay: Nagle’s Algorithm and You. -

Nagle and TCP Delayed Ack can kill you

5 signs that you should hire a programmer on the spot -

Sounds like a good hiring process.

InfoQ: Memory Barriers and JVM Concurrency -

Interesting dive into memory barriers on various hardware

Probabilistic Data Structures for Web Analytics and Data Mining -

If only I had a use for these …

May 01

Letters to a Young Engineer: How to Decide Where to Work -

Great advice

Apr 30

Benchmarking More Seq Traversal Idioms in Scala

Last week I had the luxury of spending some quality time with YourKit and our production system at Localytics and was pleasantly surprised to see things humming right along. Most of our time was spent building collections and iterating over them which got me thinking. What is the most efficient way to traverse a collection in Scala?

(Source: codedependents.com)

GapList – a lightning-fast List implementation -

Interesting data structure

Apr 25

New JVM options and Scala iteration performance -

Wow, vectors really are awesome!

Apr 24

Why is Estimating so Hard? -

Interesting insight.

Apr 21

The Leadership Challenge -

Another great article on leadership

Scala, Akka and Erlang Actor Benchmarks -

Akka for the win!

What is latency, throughput and degree of concurrency? -

Great overview of latency and throughput

Apr 20

aweisberg/JitCask -

Basho’s Bitcask in Java

Apr 18

Be Proud of Your Accomplishments, Not Your Affiliations -

Great advice from HBR