RSS Digest: Week Ending 24-Aug-2012
Java
Native C/C++ Like Performance For Java Object Serialisation
http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/native-cc-like-performance-for-java.html
25 Best Free Maven Plug-ins to Make Java Developer More Productive
http://www.fromdev.com/2012/07/25-best-free-maven-plug-ins-to-make.html
Tutorial: Create a Jenkins Plugin to integrate Jenkins and Nexus Repository
http://blog.codecentric.de/en/2012/08/tutorial-create-a-jenkins-plugin-to-integrate-jenkins-and-nexus-repository/
JDK 8 Milestones
http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8/
Double Brace Initialization
http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?DoubleBraceInitialization
Eclipse Java Decompiler
http://mchr3k.github.com/jdeclipse-realign/
Memory Access Patterns Are Important
http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/memory-access-patterns-are-important.html
Java 7 Update 6 and Java 6 Update 34 have released!
https://blogs.oracle.com/javase/entry/java_7_update_6_and
Creating a Windows Executable from a Jar using Maven
http://www.hascode.com/2012/08/creating-a-windows-executable-from-a-jar-using-maven/
Book Review: The Well-Grounded Java Developer
http://www.javaspecialists.eu/archive/Issue204.html
New JVM options to roll over to a new GC log file
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kcpeppe/archive/2012/08/20/new-jvm-options-roll-over-new-gc-log-file-0
Programming
Vim as your IDE
http://haridas.in/vim-as-your-ide.html
Latency numbers every programmer should know
https://gist.github.com/2843375
Software developers toolbox
http://online-toolz.com
Technology
TCP Performance problems caused by interaction between Nagle’s Algorithm and Delayed ACK
http://www.stuartcheshire.org/papers/NagleDelayedAck/
TCP Fast Open: expediting web services
http://lwn.net/Articles/508865/
RSS Digest: Week Ending 02-Jun-2012
Java
Applying Back Pressure When Overloaded
http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/apply-back-pressure-when-overloaded.html
Hotspot JVM Options – The complete reference
http://www.pingtimeout.fr/2012/05/jvm-options-complete-reference.html
Technology
Samsung Galaxy S III review
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/smartphones/374950/samsung-galaxy-s-iii
RSS Digest: Week Ending 18-May-2012
Java
Maven Best Practices
http://mestachs.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/maven-best-practices/
Developer Productivity Report 2012: Java Tools, Tech, Devs and Data
http://zeroturnaround.com/blog/developer-productivity-report-2012-java-tools-tech-devs-and-data/
Computer Science
The Top 10 research papers in computer science by Mendeley readership.
http://blog.mendeley.com/highlighting-research/the-top-10-research-papers-in-computer-science-by-mendeley-readership/
Technology
Intilop delivers Nano-TOE IP Core with another record breaking Ultra-Low latency of 76 nanoseconds
http://www.hftreview.com/pg/newsfeeds/intilop/item/51471/intilop-delivers-nanotoe-ip-core-with-another-record-breaking-ultralow-latency-of-76-nanoseconds
Nvidia Announces Eclipse-based IDE for Linux, Mac OS X
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-nsight-ide-eclipse-visual-studio,15639.html
Intel Gives IT More Options with New Intel® Xeon® Processors
http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2012/05/14/intel-gives-it-more-options-with-new-intel-xeon-processors?cid=rss-90004-c1-275097
Intel reveals roadmap to 5nm process
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/374626/intel-reveals-roadmap-to-5nm-process
RSS Digest: Week Ending 12-May-2012
HFT
TCP Sucks
http://bramcohen.com/2012/05/07/tcp-sucks
Podcast – The State of the Art in Low Latency – The Daly Post
http://www.moneyscience.com/pg/blog/Admin/read/334032/podcast-the-state-of-the-art-in-low-latency-the-daly-post
RSS Digest: Week Ending 04-May-2012
Java
Scala or Java? Exploring myths and facts
http://www.infoq.com/articles/scala-java-myths-facts
Azul Launches Zing 5.2 JVM With Support for Ubuntu Linux
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Azul-Launches-Zing-52-JVM-With-Support-for-Ubuntu-Linux-885879/
Java Developers Resource Center
http://www.javacodegeeks.com/p/resources.html
Programming
Reactor
http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/PDF/reactor-siemens.pdf
Linux
Linux profiling with Perf
https://code.google.com/p/kernel/wiki/PerfUserGuide
The 2012 Top 7 Best Linux Distributions for You
https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/571815:the-2012-top-7-best-linux-distributions-for-you
Ubuntu 12.04 vs. Windows 7: Intel Sandy/Ivy Bridge Loses On Linux
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_ivybridge_winlin&num=1
HFT
Dynamical Models of Market Impact and Algorithms for Order Execution
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2034178
Public News Arrival and Cross-Asset Correlation Breakdown: Implications for Algorithmic Trading
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2023079
RSS Digest: Week Ending 29-Apr-2012
Java
Java™ SE 7 Update 4
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/7u4-relnotes-1575007.html
Oracle JDK and JavaFX SDK now GA on Mac OS X
https://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/entry/oracle_jdk_and_javafx_sdk
Java Enterprise Performance
https://book.dynatrace.com/content/start.aspx
State of the Lambda: Libraries Edition
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~briangoetz/lambda/collections-overview.html
Invoke Interface Optimisations
http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/invoke-interface-optimisations.html
Using SPDY and HTTP transparently using Netty
http://www.smartjava.org/content/using-spdy-and-http-transparently-using-netty
Linux
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
https://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/136:distroblogs/569432:ubuntu-1204-lts
6 Command Line Tools for Linux Performance Monitoring
http://server.dzone.com/articles/6-command-line-tools-linux
Intel Core i7 3770K Ivy Bridge Linux Performance
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_corei7_3770k&num=1
Technology
3rd Generation Intel® Core™ Processors Bring Exciting New Experiences and Fun to the PC
http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2012/04/23/3rd-generation-intel-core-processors-bring-exciting-new-experiences-and-fun-to-the-pc?cid=rss-90004-c1-274616
High-Speed Trading: My Laser Is Faster Than Your Laser
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-04-23/high-speed-trading-my-laser-is-faster-than-your-laser
RSS Digest: Week Ending 13-Apr-2012
Java
How to Use SPDY with Jetty
http://java.dzone.com/articles/how-use-spdy-jetty
Proposed dates for JDK 8
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8-dev/2012-April/000942.html
The Java IAQ: Infrequently Answered Questions
http://norvig.com/java-iaq.html
JXInsight/Opus 1.0
http://www.jinspired.com/site/jxinsight-opus-1-0
C++
Willus.com’s 2011 Win32/64 C Compiler Benchmarks
http://willus.com/ccomp_benchmark2.shtml?p1
Intel Guide for Developing Multithreaded Applications
http://insidehpc.com/2012/04/02/intel-guide-for-developing-multithreaded-applications/
Networking
Diving into the Linux Networking Stack, Part I
http://beyond-syntax.com/blog/2011/03/diving-into-linux-networking-i/
HFT
#Commodities and #HFT – so happy together
http://www.hftreview.com/pg/blog/thetrader/read/44833/commodities-and-hft-so-happy-together
Romley – Significant Performance Gain
http://10gigabitethernet.typepad.com/network_stack/2012/03/romley-significant-performance-gain.html
Configuring the HP ProLiant Server BIOS for Low-Latency Applications
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01804533/c01804533.pdf
The Volume Clock: Insights into the High Frequency Paradigm
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2034858
Order Book Dynamics in Liquid Markets: Limit Theorems and Diffusion Approximations
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1757861
RSS Digest: Week Ending 30-Mar-2012
Java
value types in the vm
https://blogs.oracle.com/jrose/entry/value_types_in_the_vm
HFT
Trading at the Speed of Light [Bloomberg Businessweek]
http://www.hftreview.com/pg/newsfeeds/mike/item/44783/trading-at-the-speed-of-light-bloomberg-businessweek
RSS Digest: Week Ending 26-Mar-2012
Java
Oracle lays out long-range Java intentions
http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/oracle-lays-out-long-range-java-intentions-188739
Fun with my-Channels Nirvana and Azul Zing
http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/fun-with-my-channels-nirvana-and-azul.html
Java Tuning in a Nutshell – Part 1
http://randomlyrr.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/java-tuning-in-nutshell-part-1.html?m=1
Finance
School for quants
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/0664cd92-6277-11e1-872e-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1oEeYcqi8
Too Many Hats
http://hackingnasdaq.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/too-many-hats.html
High-frequency trading in the foreign exchange market
http://epchan.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/high-frequency-trading-in-foreign.html
Linux
What’s new in Linux 3.3
http://www.h-online.com/open/features/What-s-new-in-Linux-3-3-1466872.html
Linux Kernel Performance: Flame Graphs
http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2012/03/17/linux-kernel-performance-flame-graphs/
Intel Core i7 AVX GCC Compiler Tuning Results
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA3NjE
GCC Turns 25 Years Old, GCC 4.7 Released
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA3NTE
Technology
Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 review
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/graphics-cards/373696/nvidia-geforce-gtx-680
Zahid Qureshi 