Fall 2015 tech reading

Java:

• Large HashMap overview: JDK, FastUtil, Goldman Sachs, HPPC, Koloboke, Trove - January 2015 version  - Java Performance Tuning Guide
• Taming GC Pauses for Humongous Java Heaps in Spark Graph Computing-(E…
• JVM Mechanics by Douglas Hawkins as Presented at Silicon Valley Java User Group by Azul Systems on Vimeo
• Nitsan Wakart on Illusion of Execution
• java - HttpClientError: The target server failed to respond - Stack Overflow
• Exceptions & Streams
• Java 8 allows to cast to a pair of interfaces
• jdk 8 frame pointer - Google Search
• spinn3r/noxy
• Parallec.io: Fast parallel async HTTP/SSH/TCP/Ping client java library.

System:

• New ScyllaDB benchmarks - Google Groups
• Reducing system jitter - LMAX Exchange Opinions
• Technical Itch: Reducing system jitter - part 2
• Linux Page Cache - Google Groups
• Gc-and-pagescan-attacks-by-linux
• The real problem is not tinygram prevention
• The story of one latency spike
• mmap(2)
• Someday Never Comes: Debugging tip: How to simulate a slow hardisk
• Project Clearwater » Adventures in debugging: etcd, HTTP pipelining, and file descriptor leaks

Big systems:

• Cassandra and security
• It's All Relative: Why Bios Settings matter (and not size)!
• One Trillion Edges: Graph Processing at Facebook-Scale
• MySQL vs something else. Evaluating alternative databases, Mark Callaghan (Facebook) on Vimeo
• Hardening cassandra for compliance or paranoia
• Counters At Scale - A Cautionary Tale
• Spark Dev Ops Training
• Copycat - Progressive, feature-complete implementation of the Raft consensus algorithm for Java 8
• Cassandra Summit 2015 - Scylla • 1 Million CQL operations per server
• Cassandra Summit 2015 - DataStax • Extreme Cassandra Optimization - The Sequel
• DataStax: Extreme Cassandra Optimization: The Sequel
• SmartStack: Service Discovery in the Cloud - Airbnb Engineering
• Blog | InMobi Technology | Real-Time Stream Processing at InMobi- Part 4
• Mac Browning - Bringing Consul to Production
• Experiences with AWS immutable deploys and job processing
• Faster, Cheaper and Safer: Secure Microservice Architectures using Docker

Misc:

• Frame of Reference and Roaring Bitmaps | Elastic
• Secondary indexing with Redis – Redis
• Nuts and bolts: our routing algorithm
• Short history of routes computation

Until next time!