I’ve been meaning to post these results for a while and with the Thanksgiving break here in the US, I have time to finally do it.
When I ran my my original comparison, both the tests and databases were running on the same host connecting over the loopback interface. Using the loopback interface is a [...]

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One of my big complaints with Apache MINA is the high latency that’s incurred when sending data. MINA uses a set of I/O threads to handle reads and writes. This is typical of many non-blocking I/O frameworks.
Netty is much more clever than MINA. In Netty, when you make a call to send [...]

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I’ve been playing with SSL client authentication in Apache httpd today at work.  It’s something I’ve always wanted to play with but haven’t had a good reason to invest the time until now.In the process of testing my configuration, I came across openssl s_client. It’s one of those things I should have already known [...]

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I’m feeling a little bummed this afternoon. I got the following email from the GSoC people:

Dear Applicant,

First of all, Google and the open source organizations taking part in
Google Summer of Code would like to thank for applying to take part in
the program this year. Unfortunately, your application was not one of
those selected to take [...]

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This past weekend I made a 0.1 release of ADBCJ, my asynchronous database driver framework.  I also wrote a brief tutorial on how to use ADBCJ.  This release is primarily for testing and feedback on the API.  The MINA based MySQL and Postgresql drivers are working well, although they only support int and varchar data [...]

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