Protocols and Sympathy With Martin Thompson
Posted on Saturday, Jul 20, 2019
Show Notes
- Martin’s talk on protocols from J on the Beach
- Mechanical sympathy:
- Universal Scalability Law, Queuing theory, Little’s Law
- http://www.perfdynamics.com/Manifesto/USLscalability.html
- https://blog.acolyer.org/2015/04/29/applying-the-universal-scalability-law-to-organisations/
- https://www.infoq.com/presentations/little-usl-scalability-performance/
- http://perfdynamics.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-little-triplet.html
- http://www.vissinc.com/2012/09/07/littles-law-isnt-it-a-linear-relationship/
- https://medium.com/@__bbak/dont-be-fooled-by-littles-law-18e18dba3717
- Florence Nightingale and Pie Charts
- Dijkstra on the radical novelty of software
- Image credit: Ylva, Ebba, and Kashti Grimm
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Guests
Martin Thompson
Martin is a Java Champion with over 2 decades of experience building complex and high-performance computing systems. He is most recently known for his work on Aeron and SBE. Previously at LMAX he was the co-founder and CTO when he created the Disruptor. Prior to LMAX Martin worked for Betfair, three different content companies wrestling with the world largest product catalogues, and was a lead on some of the most significant C++ and Java systems of the 1990s in the automotive and finance domains.
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Jessica Kerr
Jessitron is a symmathecist in the medium of code. She works at Honeycomb in developer relations. She writes about software and system on her blog at Jessitron.com. She teaches workshops on Systems Thinking, and makes courses on Graceful.dev. She is into resilience engineering, domain-driven design, and of course DevOps – all the systems-thinky things. She lives in St. Louis, MO, where she raises two children and their cats. Find her also on >Code, and at conferences around the world.
