CoralRing is an ultra-low-latency, lock-free, garbage-free, batching and concurrent circular queue (ring) in off-heap shared memory for inter-process communication (IPC) in Java across different J... (more…)

When programming in C, one has to allocate and de-allocate memory by hand. It is an error prone process. In contrast, newer languages like Java often manage their memory automatically. Java relies on garbage collection. In effect, memory is allocated as n... (more…)

The proliferation of heterogeneous hardware in recent years has driven us to consider that every system we program, most likely includes a mix of computing elements; each of which with different hardware characteristics enabling programmers to improve per... (more…)

This is really bad. play.mvc.Filter has a serious performance issue. While working on TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks#3061 I discovered a massive performance decrease as soon as you add a simple no... (more…)

Zach Westlake | Pinterest engineer, Core Experience... (more…)