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I also worked on trading systems. Usually two methods `onMessage(long timeNow, byte[] buf)` and `onTimer(long timeNow, int timerId)`. All output sinks and a scheduler need to be pa…

Interesting approach. I often get to the same goal by using the replicated state machine pattern. Where all inputs to a system are recorded. Both methods seem to rely on designing …

I run Linux on my laptop and desktop and have a MacBook. I wouldn't recommend it for your laptop unless you're an enthusiast. Suspend/sleep is still janky, power saving is poor and…

The local scope leak seems to only happen when you drop down the call stack. See below how I can call func2 from the top level and it's fine, but if I call it from within func1, it…

Oh dear. I've been trying to get people to not use this feature for a while. One thing that has bitten me in the past is that, if you declare your associative arrays within a funct…

I completed both parts of this on Coursera. It can be a very challenging course at times but it's thoroughly rewarding. One of the key takeaways was a working mental model of how t…

Pre-allocating up front would also have been valid way of doing things. For the specific use cases I have worked on though, I'm not sure it would have had any additional performanc…

I've worked in applications where a lot of IO is required. If performance is something your application cares about then you'll probably end up using direct ByteBuffers which are o…