Bruce Boughton

The LMAX Architecture

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:56:38 +0000

LMAX is a new retail financial trading platform. As a result it has to process many trades with low latency. The system is built on the JVM platform and centers on a Business Logic Processor that can handle 6 million orders per second on a single thread. The Business Logic Processor runs entirely in-memory using event sourcing. The Business Logic Processor is surrounded by Disruptors - a concurrency component that implements a network of queues that operate without needing locks. During the design process the team concluded that recent directions in high-performance concurrency models using queues are fundamentally at odds with modern CPU design.

"Overdraft fees are the bank’s way of saying, “Hi, we noticed you are out of money, so we charged you..."

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:42:25 +0100

“Overdraft fees are the bank’s way of saying, “Hi, we noticed you are out of money, so we charged you more money.””

- BankSimple http://banksimple.com/blog/Banking/the-36-dollar-soda-overdrafting-in-america/

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kirillosenkov/archive/2011/10/18/roslyn-ctp.aspx

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:30:38 +0100

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kirillosenkov/archive/2011/10/18/roslyn-ctp.aspx

Super slo’ mo of an owl. Amazing!

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:37:29 +0100

Super slo’ mo of an owl. Amazing!

2D Photography Rube Goldberg (by 2dphotography)

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 23:02:48 +0100

2D Photography Rube Goldberg (by 2dphotography)

Guitar Oscillations Captured with iPhone 4 (by justkylevids)

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 22:52:39 +0100

Guitar Oscillations Captured with iPhone 4 (by justkylevids)

"Sigh. I feel like a lot of people in this generation are using their talents thinking up new ways to..."

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 22:03:59 +0100

“Sigh. I feel like a lot of people in this generation are using their talents thinking up new ways to get users to click ads. Myself included.”

- clobber on Hacker News

Overloading Dynamic

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:38:05 +0000

Overloading Dynamic:

If you’ve been checking out Visual Studio 2010 (or reading my blog) then you might have noticed the new “dynamic” keyword in C# 4.0. So what is the dynamic keyword? The dynami…

Thoughts on EF vs NHibernate

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:14:26 +0000

Thoughts on EF vs NHibernate:

I read through Oren’s “What can EF do that NHibernate Can’t” post the other day, and his response to some of the thoughts today and I was about to leave a comment but I though…

Ten things that annoy the fuck out of me on Twitter

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:13:45 +0000

Ten things that annoy the fuck out of me on Twitter:

God dammit, people. You suck at this social networking thing. Allow me to educate your asses on how to suck less by outlining ten things that annoy the fuck out of me on Twitter:

.@whoever —…

Online Development Studio - CodeRun

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:55:57 +0000

Online Development Studio - CodeRun:

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Web-based C#/ASP.NET/PHP IDE with intellisense, cloud hosting integration and nice UI. Could use source control support though.

Online development platform - A free,…

Difficult languages: Tongue twisters | The Economist

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:55:56 +0000

Difficult languages: Tongue twisters | The Economist:

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A fascinating tour of human languages and their peculiarities. Slightly disappointed that Japanese’s habit of changing counters depending on the subject didn’t make the…

Node.js is genuinely exciting

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:47:55 +0000

Node.js is genuinely exciting:

I gave a talk on Friday at Full Frontal, a new one day JavaScript conference in my home town of Brighton. I ended up throwing away my intended topic (JSONP, APIs and cross-domain security) three…

My Enemy, My Self

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:08:36 +0100

My Enemy, My Self:

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We’ve all experienced the inner dialog of quality vs. shipping. Rob Conery shows us why, for him, quality should win out and why often quality and shipping are allied

I’m…

Singletons Are Evil Part 2

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:05:57 +0100

Singletons Are Evil Part 2:

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Good explanation of why singletons are evil, and how you can use IoC to make singletons testable.

A while back I wrote a post about why singletons are evil. I still…

“Hero Mode Refactoring” AKA Enemy Of Brown Field Development

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:05:56 +0100

“Hero Mode Refactoring” AKA Enemy Of Brown Field Development:

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Ryan coins the term “Hero Mode Refactoring” for when you try to push a refactoring through too hastily and end up causing yourself more problems than you started with.

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Considering ASP.NET MVC UI controls? Learn HTML and Javascript!

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:14:06 +0100

Considering ASP.NET MVC UI controls? Learn HTML and Javascript!:

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Too damn right.

Warning: highly subjective content ahead.

In the recent weeks we’ve seen several control vendors come up with toolkits that target ASP.NET MVC….

VAN: Doing 2 Part Series on Castle development July 1st and 8th at 8pm

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:39:56 +0100

VAN: Doing 2 Part Series on Castle development July 1st and 8th at 8pm:

I know this isn’t related to my Pylons series and worry not there is no interruption in that, but I’m giving a couple of talks on Virtual Alt.Net. The first one I’ve done before and you may…

SerialSeb: Interfaces with static methods, reducing the cost of extensibility

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:59:36 +0100

SerialSeb: Interfaces with static methods, reducing the cost of extensibility:

Sebastien Lambla points out that you can implement “static” interface members using extension methods. This is a very handy technique.

Download Internet Explorer 8 & Help Fight Hunger

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:56:50 +0100

Download Internet Explorer 8 & Help Fight Hunger:

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It’s official, if you’re still on IE6 or IE7, you’re starving a child. You bad, bad person.

Today, the Internet Explorer Team took over New York City’s Time Warner Center…