January 2017 – Listening And Learning

January 23, 2017

A study of cache sizing

Recently I’ve been hard at work building a distributed in-memory cache for our runtime systems. One of the most important decisions that I’ve had to make in this project is the size of the cache….

January 6, 2017

This post is to write down my first impressions after reading Facebook’s Gorilla which is their in-house TSDB. Long story short, Facebook designed their own time-series database (TSDB) to collect and expose system metrics for…

January 5, 2017

Java Weak References

This is just a note about an (in my opinion at least) interesting use case for Java weak references. Weak References Java helps the developer take care of tracking objects and memory and cleaning up…