For the past several weeks I’ve been working on and off on an NIO implementation of Project Voldemort‘s socket server. Voldemort is a distributed hash table used at LinkedIn in order to scale certain workloads. Up until now, Voldemort used a blocking I/O (BIO), thread-per-socket model for its binary protocol. My implementation moved to supporting […]
Category: Design
I don’t come from a functional programming background. As a result, the concepts of closures, currying, and so forth that are present in Groovy are taking some getting used to. But that’s half the fun 😉 And without even trying, I was able to come up with a practical use for both: a generic, catch-all […]
I recently had the privilege of helping one of my clients conduct technical interviews for a Senior Java Developer position. I enjoy interviewing candidates in part because it gives me a chance to learn something. While conducting the interviews I did learn a few things, so I’m happy 🙂 However, one unfortunate thing I learned […]
I’m the kind of guy that has a ‘word of the day’ calendar and will use odd words during a conversation in an attempt to use the word sometime during the day. I especially enjoy when I learn a new word (or a new meaning of a word) that succinctly describes a concept or thought […]