Mechanical Sympathy

Do you ever wish you could turn a Java object into a stream of bytes as fast as it can be done in a native language like C++?  If you use s...

How should a system respond when under sustained load?  Should it keep accepting requests until its response times follow the deadly hockey...

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 ...