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I'm Brandon Werner, a Program Manager for Microsoft in their BPOS Engineering Core (R&D) division helping build cloud computing solutions for customers around the world.

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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 9:45 AM

Software Transactional Memory: Debunked?

If I go in to my excellent academic article organizer, Papers , and search for "software transaction memory" or "stm" I get at least 30 results of papers both high level and detailed regarding this next big thing that will allow us to finally, without

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Filed under: concurrency, stm, architecture

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 9:17 AM

The Rise Of Functional Programming: F#/Scala/Haskell and the failing of Lisp

Over at Lambda The Ultimate, the best academic programming blog on earth, there is a large debate going on regarding what the future of languages will be for 2008. The most important thing to emerge from the discussion is the larger role functional programming

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Filed under: lisp, programming, concurrency, haskell, stm

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 8:33 AM

Thoughts On Google's Conference on Scalability In Seattle

If you are looking for a good collection of notes regarding the topics covered at the Seattle Conference on Scalability , you can do no better than what James Hamilton put together . Instead, I'll write a quick commentary on what I experienced. Scalability