Communications of the ACM - Remembering Jim Gray
Queue - The Concurrency Problem
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One of the industry's go-to guys in performance improvement forbusiness systems is Jarod Jenson, the chief systems architect for aconsulting company he founded called Aeysis. He received a B.S.degree in computer science from Texas A&M University in 1995,then went to work for Baylor College of Medicine as a systemadministrator. From there he moved to Enron, where he played amajor role in developing EnronOnline. After the collapse of Enron,Jenson worked briefly for UBS Warburg Energy before setting up hisown consulting company. His focus since then has been onperformance and scalability with applications at numerous companieswhere he has earned a reputation for quickly delivering substantialperformance gains. Recently, Jarod made a splash at JavaOne: he rana booth to which attendees could bring their Java applications, andhe guaranteed application performance improvements in under anhour.