JVM memory management speed, performance related stuff and other links

Here's this season's link fest. Let's start with Java:

• JVM memory management slower than C?
• Latest Java Puzzlers 
• http://www.semicomplete.com/blog/geekery/debugging-java-performance.html
• http://www.metaltoad.com/blog/plotting-your-load-test-jmeter
• TCP-UDP bandwidth sharing (Coherence)
• bheapsampler - A very capable heap dump analyzer that uses sampling. Good for large heaps
• An alternate way to take heap dumps using GDB
• Lambdas before Java 8
• Java concurrency bug related to system date (!)

Some JavaOne related posts:

• http://marxsoftware.blogspot.com/2013/09/javaone-2013-vicariously.html
• http://www.blog.project13.pl/index.php/coding/1850/java8-the-good-parts-javaone-2013/

Other cool algos and stuff:

• http://puppetlabs.com/presentations/more-logstash-awesome
• http://www.slideshare.net/nitayj/20130910-giraph-at-london-hadoop-users-group
• http://tech.bellycard.com/blog/where-d-the-water-go-google-maps-water-pixel-detection-with-canvas/
• http://www.ignaciomellado.es/blog/Measuring-heart-rate-with-a-smartphone-camera

Until next time!