Starving CPUs, slow multi-dim arrays in Java, cool infrastructure & more

A short list of articles/papers that I thought were worth sharing:

CPU and Assembly:

• Towards native performance using Java (from the OpenGamma guys)
• Starving CPUs (from the Python PyTable developer)
• UTF-8 processing using SIMD

Polyglot analytics/programming - how startups are going full speed with Redis & MongoDB for simple analytics. Of course this leaves the heavy duty, complex analytics to Hadoop and columnar data warehouses.

• Kicking ass with Redis - for real world problems
• The beauty of simplicity - Mastering database design with Redis
• Redis - The AK-47 of post-relational databases (good content, bad title)
• Crashlytics on Redis
• Powerful autocomplete with Redis
• Mongodb for analytics
• Redis and Jedis - Delightfully simple and focused NoSQL (My own, quick intro)

Really educational, large scale, infrastructure talks:

• Petabyte Scale Data at Facebook
• From Zero to 500k QPS in Three Years: Scaling AppNexus
• Real-Time Delivery Architecture at Twitter (Lot of Redis in there)
• Netflix infrastructure (Lot of Cassandra)

Some misc notes:

• Today being Friday.. here's something for your entertainment (Hint: Linus & C++) 
• A quick note on DNS caching in Java
• Kurt Thomas on Security (Overview of the state of the art in security and cyber crime)

Happy holidays and a happy new year!