The month of May's misc tech reading (note to self: title too officious)

Java stuff I found interesting last month: 

• http://blog.informatech.cr/2014/04/04/jdk-8-interface-pollution/ 
• http://engineering.linkedin.com/garbage-collection/garbage-collection-optimization-high-throughput-and-low-latency-java-applications
• http://java-is-the-new-c.blogspot.de/2014/01/comparision-of-different-concurrency.html 
• http://blog.plenz.com/2014-04/so-you-want-to-write-to-a-file-real-fast.html 
• http://jpbempel.blogspot.com/2013/08/hardware-performance-counters.html
• Kirk Pepperdine's talk - http://oredev.org/2013/wed-fri-conference/if-betterconcurrency--betterperformance----
• https://speakerdeck.com/daschl/going-reactive-high-performance-jvm-code-with-reactor-1
• https://speakerdeck.com/daschl/state-of-the-art-jvm-networking-with-netty-4 
• We've heard of Zero copy upload in Java (made popular by Kafka), but how about download? https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/netty/Bt6hwTsDfbw

Misc distributed systems and other clever stuff:

• http://blog.explainmydata.com/2014/05/spark-should-be-better-than-mapreduce.html 
• http://engineering.pinterest.com/post/77933733851/zookeeper-resilience-at-pinterest 
• http://blog.griddynamics.com/2014/04/alternative-approach-to-spell.html 
• http://kellabyte.com/2014/04/22/improving-the-protocol-parsing-in-redis/ 
• https://code.facebook.com/posts/274771932683700/large-scale-graph-partitioning-with-apache-giraph/

A quick nod to better documentation:

• http://mrhaki.blogspot.com/2014/04/awesome-asciidoc-include-partial-parts.html 
• Netty used to use this (written by the one and only Trustin Lee) https://code.google.com/p/apiviz/

Until next time!