Here are some articles I have written in the past.

Web Services performance

This article was written before the WS SOAP era and my point I set out to prove was how ridiculous I thought it was to converting binary data into convoluted ASCII (read XML) back and forth. The benchmark compares Java RMI and Java CORBA with Axis JAX-RPC. That ASCII encoding hasn’t improved these days and my conclusions still holds, now eight years later.

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Ada style thread communication in Java

– How to implement

This article or tutorial is a mini-lecture in basic concurrency theory. It is based on a series of problems and their solutions, which step by step starts with the critical section problem and ends with non-deterministic extended rendezvous.

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The Camel Stochastic Distribution

I wrote this paper during my academic period and it’s the result of looking for an easy way to model bursts in traffic.

A Camel stochastic distribution is a composition of one or more Dromedary distributions. A Dromedary distribution is a composition of two Rectangular distribution, the Hump and the Back. The Hump is placed in the middle the Back placed (halves) on both sides of the Hump.

The Camel distribution is intended to model so called bursty traffic, where the bursts are the humps. Random variates drawn from the distribution can be used in traffic simulations, for examples or in other contexts where bursty behaviour needs to be modelled.

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