RSS Digest: Week Ending 15-Feb-2012

Java

Java 7 Update 3 and Java 6 Update 31 have released!
https://blogs.oracle.com/javase/entry/java_7_update_3_and

Adding Latency and Limiting Bandwidth
http://blog.tinola.com/?e=22

STOMP Messaging Benchmarks: ActiveMQ vs Apollo vs HornetQ vs RabbitMQ
http://hiramchirino.com/blog/2011/12/stomp-messaging-benchmarks-activemq-vs-apollo-vs-hornetq-vs-rabbitmq/

Transactional Hardware on x86
http://jeremymanson.blogspot.com/2012/02/transactional-hardware-on-x86.html

Understanding JVM Internals
http://www.cubrid.org/blog/dev-platform/understanding-jvm-internals/

What is behind System.nanoTime()?
http://stas-blogspot.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-is-behind-systemnanotime.html

Java 7: A complete invokedynamic example
http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2012/02/java-7-complete-invokedynamic-example.html

High performance libraries in Java
http://vanillajava.blogspot.com/2012/02/high-performance-libraries-in-java.html

Java 7 – Project Coin Decompiled Part II
http://www.java-n-me.com/2012/01/java-7-project-coin-decompiled-part-ii.html

atomic fetch-and-add vs compare-and-swap
https://blogs.oracle.com/dave/entry/atomic_fetch_and_add_vs

False sharing induced by card table marking
https://blogs.oracle.com/dave/entry/false_sharing_induced_by_card

Comparing JVMs on ARM/Linux
https://blogs.oracle.com/jtc/entry/comparing_jvms_on_arm_linux

Java SE Specifications
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/index.html

Programming

Programmer personality types: 13 profiles in code
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2012/120206-programmer-personality-types.html

Technology

Intel Packs Performance and Reliability into Its Latest Solid-State Drive
http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2012/02/06/intel-packs-performance-and-reliability-into-its-latest-solid-state-drive

Apple working on ARM port for Mac OS X: will Macbook Airs see it first?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2012/feb/07/apple-arm-macbook-port

High Performance Trading – FIX Messaging Testing
http://www.low-latency.com/article/high-performance-trading-fix-messaging-testing

BytePac: the cardboard hard disk enclosure
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2012/02/08/bytepac-the-cardboard-hard-disk-enclosure/