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Introduction This is the first part of a series of blog posts I intend to write, whose aim will be to explain how garbage collection works in the real world (in particular, with the JVM). I will co…
There's just one small problem: The way POSIX has defined close(2) is completely and utterly broken.
Ever since MacOS 10.0 was released, text fields have supported Emacs bindings for the single-character Control commands, showing that there were people inside Apple (and, presumably, NeXT) who were right-thinking and sensible. But some time late in the 10.6 release cycle, and continuing into 10.7.1, the binding for…
The source code of Doom3 has been released three days ago :) ! I have started to read it and I will probably write a code review if enough people are interested. According to the README.txt the source code is building well with Visual Studio 2010 but it is not building at all on Mac OS X with XCode 4.0 ( it is…
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Software Engineer in Auckland, New Zealand.
The day before I submitted this column, news hit the net that the other shoe had finally dropped. After months of waiting and wondering what was to become of Be, we learned that Palm, Inc. will be purchasing Be's technology, intellectual property, and assets. While we don't yet know exactly what Palm plans to do with…
LMAX is a retail financial trading system that can handle that can 6 million orders per second on a single JVM thread. The business logic runs in-memory surrounded by disruptors using event sourcing.
TL;DR; We had performance spikes, which we eased with some insane use of struct s. History For a while now, we had been seeing a probl...
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(Screenshot by someone on Twitter two weeks ago. I can’t find the tweet now — sorry.)
The CAP theorem states a database cannot guarantee consistency, availability, and partition-tolera...
Key Options Getting Information About the Network User Information Commands and Processes Files and Directories Advanced lsof is the sysadmin/security über-tool
C is, today, a unique programming language. Surprisingly few people can really program in C and yet many of us have quite strong opinions about it. Buffer overflows, stack smashing, integer overflows — C has many well publicised flaws, and these terms are often bandied about confidently, even by those unfamiliar with…
Why developers rarely use state machines, seeing them as overkill until it's too late to switch, and what the state_machine gem did for CrowdHired.
Solaris 5.11 (virtual: Joyent SmartMachine ) PHP 5.3.6 with PHP - FPM : 4 instances running, 10meg APC cache nginx 0.8.53 Pax 1.0 (my silly self-coded website software… and yes, oops there’s already software with that name ) 120 megs of RAM used Load tested using blitz.io : 9 million+ daily hit capability
I have been programming for a number of years already. I have seen others introduce bugs, and I have also introduced (and solved!) many bugs while coding. Off-by-one, buffer-overflow, treating pointers as pointees, different behaviors or the same function (this is specially true for cross-platform applications), race…
