Ivo Anjo.me

• software engineering ninja
• working on moving to the UK!
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• ivo's awfully random tech blog:
• why i always use attr_reader to access instance variables (sep 20, 2017)
• introducing the warmblanket gem (aug 20, 2017)
• ninjas’ guide to getting started with visualvm (aug 12, 2017)
• adopting tls (may 2, 2017)
• rubies: a look at ruby's shiny future (apr 17, 2017)
• quickies: heroku exec and deploying jruby (mar 19, 2017)
• why you should be using jruby in production (mar 16, 2017)
• benchmarking jruby invokedynamic with a production application (jan 29, 2017)
• pry-debugger-jruby gem now on rubygems! (dec 2, 2016)
• weekend hacking: enviado gem (nov 22, 2016)
• jruby's charles nutter on the jvm as a language platform (nov 15, 2016)
• peek and pick at mri's heap, part 2 (nov 13, 2016)
• finding dead ruby code with debride (oct 29, 2016)
• psa: you can now debug with pry on jruby (oct 12, 2016)
• peek and pick at mri's heap, part 1 (oct 10, 2016)
• why you should regenerate your spec_helper (sep 25, 2016)
• explaining git (sep 3, 2016)
• another round of jruby goodness (jul 17, 2016)
• down the jruby rabbit hole (jul 16, 2016)
• did_you_know.ruby? (may 14, 2016)
• asciinema: shell recording done right! (dec 1, 2015)
• whoa! java has a repl now! (nov 28, 2015)
• ruby meets weak memory models (nov 28, 2015)
• ruby features i'm looking forward to (nov 13, 2015)
• starting a new blog (nov 3, 2015)

• my ruby+jruby gems:
  • warm-blanket: warm up web services after boot
  • pry-debugger-jruby: jruby 9k-compatible pry debugging
  • enviado: trivial wrapper for lyft’s envoy proxy
• ruby stuff I maintain:
  • hyperclient: hypermedia api client
• older projects:
  • jaspex-mls
  • javartm
  • advice library
  • jvstm && fénix framework
  • open-pdf-presenter
  • pt hw keyboard layout for galaxy s relay & xperia pro
• tech interests:
  • ruby programming language using jruby and truffleruby / elixir programming language / kotlin programming language
  • jvm languages
  • shared-memory, non-blocking concurrency, actors, transactional memory

  • linux everywhere!

  • proud ubuntu user :)
  • mobile => android && jolla
    • may the qwerty phone live forever !!
• other interests:
  • running / biking
  • awful movies and sometimes good ones too :D
  • anime
  • so much steam, so little time
• publications:

  • “Design of a Method-Level Speculation framework for boosting irregular JVM applications”, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 87:13-25, 2016

  • “Speculative Parallelization of Object-Oriented Applications”, PhD Thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico / Universidade de Lisboa, 2015

  • “JaSPEx: Speculative Parallelization on the Java Platform”, Master’s Thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico / Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, 2009

  • “Improving Continuation-Powered Method-Level Speculation for JVM Applications”, 13th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP-2013)
  • “A Software-based Method-Level Speculation Framework for the Java Platform”, 25th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (LCPC 2012)
  • “Lightweight Transactional Arrays for Read-Dominated Workloads”, 11th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP-2011)
  • “Speculating on top of an unmodified Java VM”, 2011 Workshop on Wild and Sane Ideas in Speculation and Transactions (WANDS-2011)
  • “RuLAM Project: Speculative Parallelization for Java using Software Transactional Memory [Extended abstract]”, 8th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Programming in Java (PPPJ 2010)
  • “JaSPEx: Speculative Parallel Execution of Java Applications”, 1º INFORUM (INFORUM 2009)
  • “XMLaligner: Exploração de Corpora Paralelos”, XML: Aplicações e Tecnologias Associadas (XATA2007)
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