Fort Bragg, Point Cabrillo lighthouse, Mendocino county trip

Fort Bragg's Glass Beach is (well.. how shall I put it) completely skippable. The Botanical garden is totally worth the visit.













Until next time!

Java, GPU, interesting JVMLS talks, graphs, timing wheel etc.

Here's another dump of interesting/useful tech stuff I read over the past couple of months. 

(Notice how I'm getting lazier over time? I'm just dumping links and not even adding my notes or cleaning them up... just raw links)

 

http://www.infoq.com/articles/low-latency-vp
http://www.cliffc.org/blog/2013/08/15/tcp-is-unreliable/
http://www.networkworld.com/news/tech/2013/062413-hadoop-gpu-271194.html
http://blog.paradoxica.net/post/55585594323/hacking-openjdk-part-2-adding-custom-instrumentation
http://brooker.co.za/blog/2012/11/13/increment.html
http://webtide.intalio.com/2012/12/avoiding-parallel-slowdown-in-jetty-9/
http://blog.jooq.org/2013/08/20/10-subtle-best-practices-when-coding-java/

 

JVMLS 2013:
OpenJDK at Google
Project Sumatra (GPU)
JVM Benchmarking
Java Native Runtime
Graal and GPU Offload 

 

Coherence rack safe: 

http://coherencedownunder.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/making-your-cluster-site-or-rack-safe-with-coherence-3-7-1/
https://blogs.oracle.com/felcey/entry/testing_the_coherence_simple_assignment

 

Redis - http://tech.3scale.net/2012/07/25/fun-with-redis-replication/

Search and graphs:
http://karussell.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/graphhopper-maps-high-performance-and-customizable-routing-in-java/
http://www.slideshare.net/ZacharyTong/boston-meetupgoingorganic

Cassandra:
Large Queries in Real-Time for Enterprise
http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/why-cassandra-doesnt-need-vector-clocks

Timing wheel:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14250192/how-many-timeouts-can-a-netty-hashedwheeltimer-handle
http://netty.io/4.0/api/io/netty/util/HashedWheelTimer.html
http://www.cubrid.org/blog/dev-platform/more-efficient-timer-implementation-using-timerwheel/

Floating point...yuk:
https://github.com/spencertipping/flotsam
http://randomascii.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/floating-point-determinism/
http://www.apfloat.org/apfloat_java/
http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/wiki/MathExplained