Do you like challenges? If so, the guys from @codewisecom have one for you! ;) Jarosław Szatyłowicz and Maciej Biela will present benefits and caveats of using AWS spot instances and their evolution over the past year to the state it is today. atmosphere-conference.com/schedule.html

#CodewiseHeroes strike again! Don't miss Jarek's and Maciek's talks at @Atmosphereconf. 📅 June 18, 2018 📍Kino Praha, Warsaw 🎟️ atmosphere2018.evenea.pl x.com/Atmosphereconf…

@Atmosphereconf just started, this time in Warsaw 😁 Now presentation about HA configuration of #aws spot instances.

I published “The challenges of running Druid at large scale, and future directions, part 2” medium.com/@leventov/the-…

Jeff Dean and co at GOOG just released a paper showing how machine-learned indexes can replace B-Trees, Hash Indexes, and Bloom Filters. Execute 3x faster than B-Trees, 10-100x less space. Executes on GPU, which are getting faster unlike CPU. Amazing. arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1712.01…

slides for my USENIX ATC flame graphs talk slideshare.net/brendangregg/u…

Inspired by Adrian Colyer's #themorningpaper, each Tuesday at Codewise, we discuss research and technical articles. This week's meeting featured an exceptional guest - Michał Skiba from Intel - who talked about accelerating cloud applications with #Intel #FPGA-s.

And for learning about allocators, the obligatory awesome list: github.com/rain-1/awesome…

Thank you! It’s really a privilege to be named a champion :-) I see this as cumulation of all the years work with SCKRK Polish JUG KrakówScalaUserGroup Lambda Lounge Kraków Paper Cup (CS Paper), #reactivestreams, sbt-jmh and other JDK things :-) Thanks! x.com/Java_Champions…

The #Meltdown patch (presumably) being applied to the underlying AWS EC2 hypervisor on some of our production Kafka brokers [d2.xlarge]. Ranges from 5-20% relative CPU increase. Ooof.

PCID is now a critical performance/security feature on x86 - Google Groups groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/…

Planning to give a public Java performance course in London around end of April. Syllabus will focus on benchmarking methodology and pitfalls, tooling and common issues. More news on this to follow...

Flavio's improved Future implementation for the JVM (built in Java 8) can be found here github.com/traneio/future

Holy shit! spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/cons…

I secretly hope that twitter keeps extending the character limit as a social experiment, slowly conditioning our attention spans until we’re able to read actual books again

Discovering Issues with HTTP/2 via Chaos Testing twilio.com/blog/2017/10/h…

New blog post: Conservative GC: Is It Really That Bad? by Иван Углянский excelsiorjet.com/blog/articles/… #Java #JVM #GC

@Rob_Gryn's love for #CounterStrike has trickled down to our company. When passion meets skill and effort, nothing is impossible. So each Friday we enjoy the virtual reality of our office in the game. vfxNev shares the story of how he made it happen: youtube.com/watch?v=eRFitl…

In 1999, I asked David Gerrold to write a "future of computing" prediction for the magazine where I was Technology Editor. Here's what he wrote.