This month's good tech reading

(Many of these links I discovered in my Google+, Twitter, HN or RSS feeds. I don't take credit to be the first to find them)

Java:

• http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2013/12/cglib-the-missing-manual.html
• http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2013/11/how-is-threadlocal-implemented.html
• http://zeroturnaround.com/rebellabs/attack-of-the-logs-consider-building-a-smarter-log-handler/
• http://www.symphonious.net/2013/12/16/why-are-my-junit-tests-running-so-slow/
• Big Queue project
• Mechanical sympathy from Java view - a righteous cause?
• http://blogs.lmax.com/staff-blogs/2013/12/jvm-escape-analysis/
• The infamous sun.misc.Unsafe explained

Do I detect a "NoScala" sentiment here? 

• http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2014/01/i-dont-like-scala.html
• http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-of-the-considerations-involved-before-moving-to-a-full-Scala-stack

Big data:

• http://www.fullcontact.com/blog/mongo-to-cassandra-migration/
• http://vilkeliskis.com/blog/2013/12/28/hacking_cassandra.html
• http://micvog.com/2013/09/08/storm-first-story-detection/
• http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2012/02/how-mailinator-compresses-email-by-90.html
• http://engineering.onlive.com/2013/12/12/didnt-use-kafka/
• http://tech.ftbpro.com/post/73212710968/count-von-count-a-real-time-counting-database
• https://periscope.io/blog/use-subqueries-to-count-distinct-50x-faster.html
• http://sheffieldview.com/2014/01/17/cloudera-impala-a-closer-look/

Curios:

• http://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/How-does-LuaJITs-trace-compiler-work,1
• http://citusdata.com/blog/72-linux-memory-manager-and-your-big-data
• http://mina.apache.org/mina-project/userguide/ch14-state-machine/ch14-state-machine.html
• Nutanix the storage vendor talking about how they use Cassandra. Ironic that they use a distributed, open source project when they themselves are in the distributed, expensive, hardware assisted storage area
• Something sorely missing in Maven but doable in Gradle - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5144325/gradle-test-dependency
• http://www.swageroo.com/wordpress/little-known-awesome-algorithms-fenwick-range-trees-rapidly-find-cumulative-frequency-sums/
• http://blog.cloudflare.com/ensuring-randomness-with-linuxs-random-number-generator

Network:

• http://blog.thousandeyes.com/measuring-performance-with-http-proxies/ 
• http://blog.thousandeyes.com/caveats-of-popular-network-tools-traceroute/ 
• http://blog.thousandeyes.com/limitations-of-icmp-based-network-measurements/ 
• http://blog.thousandeyes.com/caveats-of-traditional-network-tools-iperf/ 
• http://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-architecture-eliminating-single-p 
• SPDY & HTTP 2   
• https://insouciant.org/tech/http-slash-2-considerations-and-tradeoffs/ 
• Old but good guide to HTTP

Until next time!