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Core Java
Java Community Survey Results: 74% of Developers Want Less Verbosity
A new JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP) is making waves in the Java community: JEP 286. The proposal suggests to introduce…
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Scala
How We Used Slack, Scala and Play to Automate Our Lunch Order
Automate all the things! Slack slash commands to the rescue Every day at noon, lunch orders are launched. All the…
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Core Java
Still Unsafe: The Major Bug in Java 6 That Turned into a Java 9 Feature
What does the future hold for sun.misc.Unsafe? With 2015 having just drawn to a close, we thought this would be…
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DevOps
Deployment Management Tools: Chef vs. Puppet vs. Ansible vs. SaltStack vs. Fabric
What are the pros and cons of Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack and Fabric? Working in production today often means continuous deployments…
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DevOps
Alerting in Production: 6 Tools to Track Errors and Uptime
What are some of the best alerting tools for tracking errors and uptime? Having all the automation and management in…
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DevOps
7 Monitoring Tools to Prevent Your Next Production Doomsday
What are some of the most useful monitoring tools for Java developers? Monitoring is an essential function in production environments…
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Core Java
Infer: A Look Into Facebook’s New Java Static Analysis Tool
How can you improve your Java development workflow with Facebook’s Infer? If you keep in the loop with tech buzz (which…
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Core Java
Java Micro Frameworks: The New Trend You Can’t Ignore
What are Java micro frameworks and why should you use them? Every language has tradeoffs. With Java, the tradeoff for…
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Core Java
When JVMs Crash: How to Investigate the Root Cause of Your Toughest Errors
What can you learn when your application crashes? I think, “Hindsight is 20 / 20” is one of the favourite…
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