ZooKeeper: Because Coordinating Distributed Systems is a Zoo

libdispatch

Apple's Grand Central Dispatch has been ported to FreeBSD

google code

List of projects i found interesting:

http://code.google.com/p/google-guice/

http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/

http://code.google.com/p/google-sparsehash/

http://code.google.com/p/wave-protocol/

http://code.google.com/p/pywebsocket/

http://code.google.com/p/google-coredumper/

http://code.google.com/p/google-glog/

http://code.google.com/p/google-breakpad/

http://code.google.com/p/google-url/

http://code.google.com/p/google-perftools/

http://code.google.com/p/google-gflags/

http://code.google.com/p/google-ctemplate/

http://code.google.com/p/google-mysql-tools/

http://code.google.com/p/googletest/

http://code.google.com/p/googlemock/

Fast Locks

futexes

All about memory allocators

jemalloc

1. Stand-alone jemalloc for linux
2. jemalloc Vs ptmalloc performance
3. A Scalable Concurrent malloc(3) Implementation for FreeBSD

tcmalloc

1. tcmalloc

hoard

1. A Scalable Memory Allocator for Multithreaded Applications
   

Slab

1. Memcached Slab Allocator

phkmalloc

1. FreeBSDs older default malloc before 7.0

References

1. A Comparison of Memory Allocators in Multiprocessors

daemonize

daemon tools

Wt (pronounced 'witty')

C++ Web Toolkit

Messaging

Apache Qpid is a Open Source AMQP Messaging

State Threads Library

On Sourceforge

Memcache Protocol

Lock Service

Chubby Distributed Lock Service

VMware View Open Client

On Google Code

compiler cache

ccache

Eventually Consistent - Revisited

Excellent posting on data consistency in distributed systems

SHOP.COM Cache System

sccache

Google's Obfuscated TCP

Introduction Video

Code

MultiCore and Concurrency

The Free Lunch Is Over

RabbitMQ - Open Source Enterprise Messaging

• Site : http://www.rabbitmq.com/
• Slides 1 : http://www.rabbitmq.com/resources/google-tech-talk-final/alexis-google-rabbitmq-talk.pdf
• Slides 2: http://www.rabbitmq.com/resources/google-tech-talk-final/google.html
• Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQogoEVXBSA

FireWall

With so many revelations it is hard not to gain more interest in the financial world, the following is the collection of audio/videos for main street from public radio

1. Credit Default Swaps
2. Uncorking CDOs
3. About the Economy

What every programmer should know about memory

1. Part 1
   
2. CPU caches
3. Virtual Memory
4. NUMA
5. What programmers can do
6. Multi-Thread Optimizations
7. Memory performance tools
8. Upcoming Technology