Parallel Universe

… and why math (alone) won’t help us
I was very happy to speak at Curry On once again. Last year, following our work with Quasar, I spoke on continuations vs. monads. This year I gave a talk about computational complexity results in software verification, a subject I became interested in...

A user recently drew our attention to the Skynet benchmark, a microbenchmark for “extreme” multithreading (1M threads). We are generally wary of such microbenchmarks because they are often tailored to measure a specific strength of a particular platform...

So you’ve got a fancy design using actors, you’ve chosen the JVM and Quasar’s powerful, loyal take on the subject. All wise decisions, but then what are your options for distributing them on a cluster?
Galaxy
Galaxy is a really cool option: a fast in-memory data grid optimized for data locality with replication, optional persistence, a distributed actor registry and even actors migration between nodes! There’s only one caveat: it will take another couple...

After a first post about HTTP clients, to which I redirect you for an introduction about efficient HTTP on the JVM, let’s now talk about HTTP servers.
There are several benchmarks about HTTP servers out there but they’re often hindered by shortcomings such as:...