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For years, my favorite trait in developers was curiosity. Curios developers learn fast and write more reliable code because they follow all the small "mmm.. why does this happen" moments before users see them. But I have a new one now. Diligence. Developers that maintain

Panama uring Java This is an exploratory project that uses Java's new FFI mechanism to introduce io_uring to Java. github.com/dreamlike-ocea…

Super excited to share that Kirill and I will be presenting at Fintech Devcon in Denver this August! It’s a conference for builders in the fintech industry, running from August 4–6. We’re really looking forward to it!

The Aeron high-performance messaging library runs over UDP with NAK-based recovery - a fascinating optimisation over TCP which requires an ack per packet. github.com/aeron-io/aeron…

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Pekka Enberg Or we can do better: To hedge physical requests for consistency and tail tolerance, and with logical availability rather than CAP’s reduced definition of physical availability. Plus, tighter P100s on latency than what CAP would give. TB recently started hedging for all these

How to develop taste: Step 1: Ignore all the hustle-culture get-rich-quick BS. If someone isn't motivated by quality they won't develop it. Step 2: The essence of taste is simplicity. Simplicity is hard. Any time a system is getting messy or complicated ask yourself "how could

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It still has to be reviewed, but finally the cursor based C* compaction patch is in the open: issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CA… "3-5x faster [compaction] in most scenarios and allocates ~20mb vs. multiple GB[per compaction]" :-)