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I use Vox but without any cloud or premium features. It's free and works well enough on my Mac.

https://vox.rocks/mac-music-player


Yes it was great, and still … I use Vox 2.7.7, but not sure how long it will last with macOS moving forward. It was last version without requirement to login in cloud and pay subscription to use features as simple as equalizer. But even with this version, I had to `chmod -x /Applications/VOX.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/*` to stop background crap.


Indeed, she was part of the legendary Wrecking Crew.


SEEKING WORK - Washington, DC - Remote only

Developer, architect and writer. 20+ years of experience with Java and C (some Python), databases, back-end / desktop systems, algorithms, etc. Interested in performance tuning and technical writing.

I'm a native English speaker, have a BS in Computer Science, built a lot of systems and understand modern stacks very well. I can improve the performance of your system, whether the bottleneck is in the code (front-end or back-end), database, network stack, cache, or elsewhere. Currently writing a book on improving software performance.

I'm also an accomplished writer, having written one technical book (on undocumented Microsoft file formats) and edited four others. I can document your system, process, framework or anything similar.

Github: https://github.com/argonium

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfwallace/

Email: mfwallace at gmail


More info on Spring support for GraalVM native images: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/wiki/Gra...


There's a fantastic book on Shannon called "Grammatical Man", by Jeremy Campbell - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000KHFL0W



While this book was originally published in 1973, it contains a lot of great information that is relevant today. I should re-read it...



OMG, I totally forgot about this book. I loved it! Now, downloading ebook to reread it.


This is a fascinating book.


Truly excellent, yes.


Location: Fairfax, VA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Developer, architect and writer. 20+ years of experience with Java and C (some Python), databases, back-end / desktop systems, algorithms, etc. Interested in performance tuning and technical writing.

I'm a native English speaker, have a BS in Computer Science, built a lot of systems and understand modern stacks very well. I can improve the performance of any system, whether the bottleneck is in the code (front-end or back-end), database, network stack, cache, or elsewhere. Currently writing a book on improving software performance.

I'm also an accomplished writer, having written one technical book (on undocumented Microsoft file formats) and edited 4 others. I can document your system, process, framework or anything similar.

Resume/CV: https://github.com/argonium and https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfwallace/

Email: mfwallace at gmail


Location: Fairfax, VA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Developer, architect and writer. 20+ years of experience with Java and C (some Python), databases, back-end / desktop systems, algorithms, etc. Interested in performance tuning and technical writing.

I'm a native English speaker, have a BS in Computer Science, built a lot of systems and understand modern stacks very well. I can improve the performance of any system, whether the bottleneck is in the code (front-end or back-end), database, network stack, cache, or elsewhere. Currently writing a book on improving software performance.

I'm also an accomplished writer, having written one technical book (on undocumented Microsoft file formats) and edited 4 others. I can document your system, process, framework or anything similar.

Resume/CV: https://github.com/argonium and https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfwallace/

Email: mfwallace at gmail


Location: Washington, DC

Remote: Yes, only

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Developer, architect and writer. 20+ years of experience with Java and C (some Python), databases, back-end / desktop systems, algorithms, etc. Interested in performance tuning and technical writing.

I'm a native English speaker, have a BS in Computer Science, built a lot of systems and understand modern stacks very well. I can improve the performance of any system, whether the bottleneck is in the code (front-end or back-end), database, network stack, cache, or elsewhere. Currently writing a book on improving software performance.

I'm also an accomplished writer, having written one technical book (on undocumented Microsoft file formats) and edited 4 others. I can document your system, process, framework or anything similar.

Resume/CV: https://github.com/argonium and https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfwallace/

Email: mfwallace at gmail


I've been following these benchmarks for some time, and am always shocked that Spring does so poorly (it's 7% here). I haven't had any performance issues with Spring in production, so these benchmarks are puzzling. Are the other frameworks really that much faster in practice?


What kind of traffic do you see in production? Rails gets hammered in these benchmarks, but does just fine for most companies' requirements. It's pretty rare that you'd actually need to eke out the raw numbers that the top contenders get. I'm of the opinion that-- within reason-- developer ergonomics, and ability to quickly solve business problems are more important than raw performance, so long as performance is good enough by some agreed upon metric.


Good point. Thanks for the feedback. Our sites don't get a huge amount of traffic, so it's possible Spring doesn't have as good a concurrency story (or it's due to memory usage) as the higher-ranked frameworks, so it's been sufficient for our needs.


Yep I feel the same about Elixir and Phoenix. It's way down but again, the "way down" is 20k requests per second. Not too shabby. The biggest project I've worked on had 50 requests per second, and that was an E-Commerce site that brought in 9 figures a year in revenue.

I'm sure IoT workflows are mainly where you start to see these more insane RPS numbers. But still, this just tells me there's so much great choice out there for pretty much any platform you want to stick with.

I'd love to see another metric that normalizes between Cloud and Physical, like $ per request. We don't know how much the cloud server cost vs the physical, do we? I mean it's a 10x difference in performance, is it a 10x difference in price?

Update: Azure D2v3 instances (used for the cloud benchmark) are about $55 a month. ($660 a year).

Just the Xeon in the physical costs $1,500. The full server probably costs $5k? So assuming a server has a life of 3 years, you're looking at the Azure instance being $1,980, the Dell being maybe $5k? So it's about 10x performance for 3x the price.

Someone please fix my math and fill in the gaps :)


I wonder how a Spring WebFlux [1] variant of the spring benchmark would perform in comparison. Also the spring benchmark has been updated to use a recent spring boot release about a month ago [2]. Before that it was using spring boot 1.3.5.

[1] https://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-... [2] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/commits/m...


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