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Hello World

Hi There! 

Seems appropriate that I should entitle my first blog entry as "Hello World". Sure ... it's not the most creative of titles, but oh well. Hopefully you'll forgive me for my lack of originality.

So, now that I've sucked you in, let me introduce myself. My name is Eric and I am a software engineer here at Sun Microsystems.  I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and have been here most of my adult life. Other places I've lived include Minneapolis, San Luis Obispo, and  Zweibrucken (Germany). 

For the past eight years I've been working on-and-off at Sun (more 'on' than 'off', but who is counting)  during which I've been involved in a variety of roles and projects, from a tools developer for the Java Conformance and Compatibility team, to a developer on the ST5800 (also known as Honeycomb to those of us who know and love her), to my current position as an engineer in the Database Group. My new role has me focusing a lot on caching solutions, specifically Memcached. 

One of the first things I'll be tackling is a performance evaluation of the available Java based Memcached clients --I will primarily be looking at the Whalin and Spy clients but if someone knows of another Java based client I should consider, speak up.  As I make progress on this, I'll be sure to post my findings to this blog. 

Well that's all for now ....  nice talking to you. 

Posted at 12:34PM Nov 17, 2008 by Eric Lambert in Sun  |  Comments[0]