George Ball

35+ years of experience in all areas ranging from development through support (pre- and post- sales) to consultancy, training and mentoring, now at Chronicle Software. Specialties: Unix- Linux/Solaris, programming in Scala, Java, Akka, C/C++, Perl, Python and Groovy, Networking and Web technologies.

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George Ball Feb 2, 2024 10,841 views

Achieving High Throughput Without Sacrificing Latency

Low latency coding techniques are designed to keep a processor core as busy as possible, executing at its full potential and so getting work …

George Ball Dec 1, 2023 5,131 views

Strategies for Managing State in Chronicle Services

When implementing an application using a Microservice architecture, it is crucially important to be aware of the potential pitfalls of …

Chronicle Software Cloud Events Java Java Core

George Ball Oct 25, 2023 4,491 views

Navigating Behaviour with Events

The practices of Event-Driven Architecture and Behaviour-Driven Development have more in common than may at first be apparent.

Java Java Core JavaFX

George Ball Sep 13, 2023 6,463 views

Chronicle Services: Building Fast Microservices with Java

Chronicle Services presents an opinionated view of several of the specialised libraries we have developed to support low-latency …

Chronicle Software Performance Tools

George Ball Jul 5, 2023 4,603 views

Billions of Messages Per Minute Over TCP/IP

Chronicle Wire has had new features added to permit communication with other components across a TCP/IP network.

Java Core JavaFX Tutorials Use Cases

George Ball May 10, 2023 6,348 views

Tuning Java Applications for Low Latency on Linux

An introduction to some approaches that can be taken when we want to have our applications utilise system resources most effectively.

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