Category Archives: Science

Stuttering Performance! | The Two Minutes Tuesday 024 | Informatics

Posted on 25. May 2021 by Markus Karg

Ever wondered why #performance is not scaling linear, but more like in steps? This episode of #TheTwoMinutesThuesday explains why! Watching your computer copying large files you will notice that the overall progress is everything but smooth nor linear! Some data … Continue reading →

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Just learned one interesting aspect of immutables: Besides the fact that they help you to provide a lot of ugly threading problems, they potentially speed your your code by itself. The trick is that once you prevent the creation of … Continue reading →

Posted on 7. April 2016 by Markus Karg | Comments Off on How Immutables Speed Up Even Non-Parallel Software

At “parallel//2016” (Heidelberg/Germany, April 6th through 8th) I will address the topic of formulating fibers in pure Java SE 8, using the CompletableFuture API.

Posted on 7. February 2016 by Markus Karg | Comments Off on parallel//2016 – I’m speaking!

If you are enrolled at University Stuttgart and ever liked to learn how to write clean JavaFX applications, here is your chance: On Febrary 8, 2016, I will give a guest lecture at the Institute for Parallel and Distributed Systems (IPVS). In this roughly … Continue reading →

Posted on 31. October 2015 by Markus Karg | Comments Off on Announcement: “JavaFX Jump-Start” (University Stuttgart, February 2016)

me@CERN.ch

Posted on 31. August 2015 by Markus Karg

  I was at CERN and all you got is this lousy photo of my T-Shirt, neener-neener! 😉

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