This month’s Effective Concurrency column, “Eliminate False Sharing”, is now live on DDJ’s website.
People keep writing asking me about my previous mentions of false sharing, even debating whether it’s really a problem. So this month I decided to treat it in depth, including:
A compelling and realistic example where just changing a couple [...]
Seen at a gas station:
You know your UI has usability issues when people tape multiple signs on your gas pump to help people get through the intricate and error-prone process of purchasing fuel.
Why does the upper note exist? The trouble is that there’s a Debit button but not a Credit [...]
This month’s Effective Concurrency column, “Use Thread Pools Correctly: Keep Tasks Short and Nonblocking”, is now live on DDJ’s website.
From the article:
… But the thread pool is a leaky abstraction. That is, the pool hides a lot of details from us, but to use it effectively we do need to be aware [...]
In my travels, I recently came across this empty store with an almost-empty box beside the front door. As seen in Monterey, CA:
Evidently some character had also noticed the empty store with its empty box, and decided to do a little walk-by wry economic commentary via repurposed quotation. Zooming on the once-empty [...]
Now that I’m over the icky flu that forced me to postpone the seminar two weeks ago, I’m happy to say that we have new dates: Effective Concurrency (Europe) will be held on May 27-29, 2009, in Stockholm, Sweden. I’ll cover the following topics:
Fundamentals: Define basic concurrency goals and requirements • Understand [...]
The latest casualties in the technical education world are the Software Development conferences – SD West, SD Best Practices, and Architecture & Design World – which are being discontinued effective immediately, making the SD West that was just held earlier this month the last of its kind. The conferences were run by the same [...]
This month’s Effective Concurrency column, “Use Threads Correctly = Isolation + Asynchronous Messages”, is now live on DDJ’s website.
From the article:
Explicit threads are undisciplined. They need some structure to keep them in line. In this column, we’re going to see what that structure is, as we motivate and illustrate best practices for [...]
Right now I should be at 40,000 feet somewhere over Baffin Island on my way to Stockholm for Effective Concurrency Europe, but instead I’m in bed with a fever that I’ve had since Wednesday night and still unable to talk. The organizer and I have been staying in touch with flu updates every few [...]
Like many areas in the United States, Seattle has recently been hit with layoffs and downsizing in our industry. So it’s quite timely that Steve McConnell’s company Construx, in the Seattle area, is offering free training for laid-off software workers:
After listening to doom and gloom economic reports for the past few months, we [...]
This month’s Effective Concurrency column, “Sharing Is the Root of All Contention”, is now live on DDJ’s website.
This article aims to address the root cause behind some frequently made assertions: Statements like “locks kill scalability” and “CAS kills scalability” are mostly true but focus on symptoms rather than causes; and others such as [...]
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