Benjamin Darfler is a software developer with a passion for singing and concert photography. Twitter :: LinkedIn :: SmugMugWordpress :: SlideShare :: github var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-5083401-4']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); Tumblr (3.0; @bdarfler)http://bdarfler.com/<a href="http://www.cubrid.org/blog/dev-platform/how-to-analyze-java-thread-dumps/">How to Analyze Java Thread Dumps</a>: <p>How to use thread dumps to find lock contention.</p>http://bdarfler.com/post/17905180585http://bdarfler.com/post/17905180585Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:46:36 -0500javathread<a href="http://supercomputingblog.com/optimization/taking-advantage-of-cache-coherence-in-your-programs/">Taking advantage of cache coherence in your programs</a>: <p>Sequential I/O, not sure how many times I can say it.</p>http://bdarfler.com/post/17653683176http://bdarfler.com/post/17653683176Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:48:42 -0500<a href="http://www.componentowl.com/blog/2012/02/zen-coder-vs-distraction-junkie/">Are You a Zen Coder or Distraction-Junkie?</a>: <p>I try to be Zen, but lest be honest…</p>http://bdarfler.com/post/17570761529http://bdarfler.com/post/17570761529Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:19:39 -0500<a href="http://highlyscalable.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/mapreduce-patterns/">MapReduce Patterns, Algorithms, and Use Cases</a>: <p>Great overview, I particularly liked the striping trick.</p>http://bdarfler.com/post/17352433979http://bdarfler.com/post/17352433979Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:44:14 -0500<a href="http://nathanmarz.com/blog/suffering-oriented-programming.html">Suffering-oriented programming</a>: <p>Interesting history of the creation of Storm.</p>http://bdarfler.com/post/17317016521http://bdarfler.com/post/17317016521Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:32:01 -0500<a href="http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/2/7/hypertable-routs-hbase-in-performance-test-hbase-overwhelmed.html">Hypertable Routs HBase in Performance Test</a>: <p>Check the comments for a reply from an HBase committer.</p>http://bdarfler.com/post/17263649167http://bdarfler.com/post/17263649167Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:13:00 -0500nosqlhbase<a href="http://openmymind.net/2012/2/6/Lets-Build-Something-Using-Amazons-DynamoDB/">Let's Build Something Using Amazon's DynamoDB</a>: <p>Interesting and critical take on DynamoDB</p>http://bdarfler.com/post/17209615669http://bdarfler.com/post/17209615669Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:31:24 -0500nosql<a href="http://engineering.foursquare.com/2012/02/02/heapaudit-jvm-memory-profiler-for-the-real-world/">HeapAudit – JVM Memory Profiler for the Real World</a>: <p>Interesting tool from Foursquare</p>http://bdarfler.com/post/17000826481http://bdarfler.com/post/17000826481Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:28:51 -0500jvm<a href="http://hiramchirino.com/blog/2012/02/apache-apollo-1-0-released/">Apache Apollo 1.0 Released!</a>: <p>Congrats to @hiramchirino and the whole AMQ team!</p>http://bdarfler.com/post/16976104689http://bdarfler.com/post/16976104689Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:15:53 -0500messaging<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp0HIF3SfI4&list=WLE9F4115B5A24EB25&index=1&feature=plpp_video">Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action</a>: <p>A must watch.</p>http://bdarfler.com/post/16538550457http://bdarfler.com/post/16538550457Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:36:45 -0500<a href="http://blog.boxedice.com/2012/01/25/handling-memcached-failover/">Handling Memcached failover</a>: <p>Moxi looks like a nice proxy for memcached.</p>http://bdarfler.com/post/16472919542http://bdarfler.com/post/16472919542Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:39:20 -0500memcached<a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/1225">Octave: A Free, High-Level Language for Mathematics</a>: <p>An open source matlab like tool. Hello linear algebra.</p>http://bdarfler.com/post/16418663180http://bdarfler.com/post/16418663180Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:48:32 -0500math<a href="http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html">The Rise of "Worse is Better"</a>: <p>Simplicity over perfection, every time.</p>http://bdarfler.com/post/16389281561http://bdarfler.com/post/16389281561Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:25:36 -0500<a href="http://herbsutter.com/welcome-to-the-jungle/">Welcome to the Jungle</a>: <p>A must read on the future of hardware parallelism from the author of “The Free Lunch is Over”</p>http://bdarfler.com/post/16316786097http://bdarfler.com/post/16316786097Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:11:42 -0500<a href="http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/1/19/is-it-time-to-get-rid-of-the-linux-os-model-in-the-cloud.html">Is it time to get rid of the Linux OS model in the cloud?</a>: <p>Everything about I/O needs to be reexamined.</p>http://bdarfler.com/post/16170937780http://bdarfler.com/post/16170937780Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:35:00 -0500performance<a href="https://github.com/shuttler/nessDB#readme">shuttler/nessDB - GitHub</a>: <p>Interesting project simliar to LevelDB</p>http://bdarfler.com/post/15722335849http://bdarfler.com/post/15722335849Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:22:09 -0500nosql<a href="http://blog.pythonisito.com/2011/12/mongodbs-write-lock.html?m=1">MongoDB's Write Lock</a>: <p>Spoiler alert, MongoDB 2.0 kick some serious butt.</p>http://bdarfler.com/post/15238844910http://bdarfler.com/post/15238844910Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:01:00 -0500MongoDBnosql<a href="http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2011/12/replication-and-latency-consistency.html">Replication and the latency-consistency tradeoff</a>: <p>Interesting take on various replication schemes.</p>http://bdarfler.com/post/13945072711http://bdarfler.com/post/13945072711Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:57:25 -0500scalabilitynosql<a href="http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/7/109885-the-case-for-ramcloud/fulltext">The Case for RAMCloud</a>: <p>This is where its all going. Looks a lot like Hbase to the extreme.</p>http://bdarfler.com/post/13633480378http://bdarfler.com/post/13633480378Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:03:10 -0500nosqlperformanceram<a href="http://www.pythian.com/news/28797/de-confusing-ssd-for-oracle-databases/">De-Confusing SSD (for Oracle Databases)</a>: <p>Good overview of SSDs even if you don’t use Oracle</p>http://bdarfler.com/post/13222415667http://bdarfler.com/post/13222415667Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:20:38 -0500ssd