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.

6 articles

Feb 2, 2024 George Ball

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 …

Chronicle Software FinOps

Dec 1, 2023 George Ball

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

Oct 25, 2023 George Ball

Navigating Behaviour with Events

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

Sep 13, 2023 George Ball

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

Jul 5, 2023 George Ball

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

May 10, 2023 George Ball

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.