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Java vs. C Performance
Cliff Click takes a look at Java vs C performance. He discusses both languages' strong and weak points and the programming context surrounding language choices.
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Profilers Are Lying Hobbits (and we hate them!)
Nitsan Wakart discusses concrete cases in which profilers misguide, misrepresent and at times subvert the systems they aim to help us diagnose.
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How to I/O?
Todd Montgomery discusses the challenges of I/O, as software and hardware change rapidly and conventional wisdom must evolve to keep up, revisiting old ideas with new and different perspectives.
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How NOT to Measure Latency
Gil Tene provides an in-depth overview of Latency and Response Time Characterization, including proven methodologies for measuring, reporting, and investigating latencies, including pitfalls to avoid.
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Cyber-dojo: Executing Your Code for Fun and Not-for Profit!, Part 1
Jon Jagger introduces cyber-dojo.org, an open source environment for practicing programming, demoing its features and discussing its history, design, underlying technology, difficulties and future.
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Functional Programming You Already Know
Kevlin Henney examines functional and declarative programming styles from the point of view of coding patterns, little languages and programming techniques already familiar to many programmers.
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Test-Driven Microservices: System Confidence
Russ Miles shows how we can build production-level confidence in our polyglot microservices by applying the test-driven approach to synchronous (REST) and asynchronous (Messaging) services.
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Monkeys in Lab Coats: Applying Failure Testing Research @Netflix
The authors present how lineage-driven fault injection evolved from a theoretical model into an automated failure testing system that leverages Netflix’s fault injection and tracing infrastructures.
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Understanding Hardware Transactional Memory
Gil Tene explores the underlying mechanics that power HTM on current platforms, focusing on things developers need to understand when contemplating the use of HTM in new and existing code.
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Unevenly Distributed
For over a year now, Adrian has been reading a research paper every weekday and posting a summary to his blog, 'The Morning Paper.' This is the story of what he has learned on the journey
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Insights from History of Rock Music via Machine Learning
Ali Kheyrollahi uses clustering and network analysis algorithms to analyze the publicly available Wiki data on rock music to find mathematical relationship between artists, trends and subgenres.
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Creating a Rainstorm Using Infrared and C#
Lisa Taylor shares the story of programming trial and error. Using C#, JavaScript, pixels and bitmaps, loops and infrared light she created a digital rainstorm inside a shipping container.
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