Six years ago I had a conversation with an old university friend.  We had found each other again via social media. It was great to catch up after all those years.  During that conservation he mentioned that his company was …

James O Coplien talk at GOTO 2017 is full of interesting and controversial ideas and comments. His book “Advanced C++ Programming Styles and Idioms”  from 1991 was a seminal work on C++, it heavily influenced the patterns community and …

Joining WD I wasn’t sure what to expect and arriving at the door I was a bundle of nerves.

After 6 months those first day nerves are long gone. In fact they disappeared almost immediately on day one. From team …

The XFS filesystem has been around for nearly 20 years. It was first introduced by

Silicon Graphics, (RIP) for their Unix based operating system IRIX. It was designed to scale to systems with 1TB of shared memory and …

There are some pretty cool bands (Beck, Orbital, Manic Street Preachers) playing Belfast for the Radio 6 The Biggest Weekend event. Some of the WANDisco@Belfast team will be there too 🙂…

This is a real nice set of lecture notes on distributed systems covering Consensus, Logical Clocks, Paxos, FLP, failure detectors, Software Transactional Memory etc by James Aspnes.…

I tripped over this video on the Slab allocator:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQVd9mZr-jI&t=840s

This is the original paper:

http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bos94/full_papers/bonwick.ps

I read this paper a long time ago when I was working on a code base that had implemented its own version of Slab.…