Mechanical Sympathy

I'm often asked about the performance differences between Java, C, and C++, and which is better.  As with most things in life there is ...

Since leaving LMAX I have been neglecting my blog a bit.  This is not because I have not been doing anything interesting.  Quite the opposi...

Many applications record a series of events to file-based storage for later use.  This can be anything from logging and auditing, through ...

After my last post on Java Lock Implementations , I got a lot of good feedback about my results and micro-benchmark design approach.  As a ...

We all use 3rd party libraries as a normal part of development.  Generally, we have no control over their internals.  The libraries provide...