My posts are getting less frequent and when I do post something, I realize that they are mostly just links. Yes, work is keeping me busy.
Big data: 
- Kafka/Hbase tuning
 - Apache Tajo: Query Optimization Techniques and JIT-based Vectorized Engine
 - "Jepsen II: Linearizable Boogaloo" by Kyle Kingsbury
 - "Taming the 9s" by Ariel Weisberg
 - Yahoo talks about Spark vs. Storm
 - Druid / Building Real-time Systems with Open Source Technologies
 - Raft, In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm
 - Storm's tuple tracking
 - Cassandra 2.1 boot camp, Read/Write path
 - Cassandra - Real Data Models of Silicon Valley
 - Practice Makes Perfect: Extreme Cassandra Optimization
 - Interesting Cassandra projects:
 
- https://github.com/rackerlabs/blueflood
 - https://github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb
 - https://github.com/OpenNMS/newts
 - https://github.com/datastax/spark-cassandra-connector
 - http://prestodb.io/docs/current/connector/cassandra.html
 
Really? Another Hadoop SQL layer? Another Storm?
- https://github.com/KylinOLAP/Kylin
 - http://tigon.io/
 - http://phoenix.apache.org/
 - http://incubator.apache.org/drill/
 - http://samza.incubator.apache.org/
 - http://prestodb.io/
 - http://www.slideshare.net/ptgoetz/apache-storm-vs-spark-streaming
 
For those of you who knew about the original "column oriented stores" and "in-memory stream processing" - KDB - http://queue.acm.org/detail. cfm?id=1531242
- http://mishadoff.github.io/
blog/effective-java/  - 
http://www.infoq.com/
presentations/jvm-dynamic- optimizations  - Blocking vs. non-blocking
 - AtomicXX lazySet
 - Shenandoah: An open source pauseless GC for OpenJDK
 
Java 8 - the good and ugly bits: 
- I'm not looking forward to using Streams and CompletableFuture - JVM concurrency: Java 8 concurrency basics
 - 
http://tododev.wordpress.com/
2014/08/11/java-yield-like- using-stream-api/  - Worth the read: What's New in Java 8
 - http://blog.informatech.cr/
2014/04/04/jdk-8-interface- pollution/  - http://www.airpair.com/java/
posts/parallel-processing-of- io-based-data-with-java- streams  
Networks and systems:
- Hardcore tuning - http://10gigabitethernet.
typepad.com/files/sf-110694- tc.pdf  - 
http://codearcana.com/posts/
2013/05/18/achieving-maximum- memory-bandwidth.html  - http://labs.opendns.com/2014/
10/01/redesigning-dns- database-low-latency/  - http://dtrace.org/blogs/
brendan/2014/02/11/another-10- performance-wins/  
The usual Scala and Go hate:
- http://www.slideshare.net/
Bozho/scala-the-good-the-bad- and-the-very-ugly  - 
http://jeffknupp.com/blog/
2014/08/19/go-is-fun-familiar- and-fast/  - http://stackoverflow.com/
questions/1863460/whats-the- point-of-having-pointers-in-go  - Ha! "It's weird to see a young language getting stuck with inconsistent and strange syntax while still being a young language and claiming "historical" reasons"
 - https://lobste.rs/s/ycor8k/
why_go_is_not_good/comments/ gs4pe9#c_gs4pe9  - http://yager.io/programming/
go.html