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Friday, December 14, 2012

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!

By Ashwin Jayaprakash

Topics: #data, #java, #system, tech

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