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I saw Temple Grandin speak recently and I heard a number of nuggets of wisdom from someone who truly thinks different. If you don’t know the name, Dr. Grandin is a very high functioning autistic person who has revolutionized the … Continue reading →

Here’s an interesting set of posts from Shaneal Manek, the developer behind signpost.com (born as postabon.com).  He first makes the point that LISP is a fast language for internet server development, and with some small optimization hints, can be 4x faster … Continue reading →

Berkeley DB, at least the core API, is mostly threadless.  If you are using any of the APIs that have been around for more than five years, there’ll be nothing happening, threadwise, in the background. I think a lot of … Continue reading →

When I first starting working on performance with BDB core, I remember learning that the cache size tuning parameter was the biggest dial you could turn to boost performance for an app.  I envisioned this huge dial, and the temptation … Continue reading →

I’ve been meaning to do this for a long time.  Every time I visit a client.  Every time I discover something interesting in the API.  Every time I hear news about BDB. You see, for years, I’ve been working with … Continue reading →