Core Java
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Common SQL Clauses and Their Equivalents in Java 8 Streams
Functional programming allows for quasi-declarative programming in a general purpose language. By using powerful fluent APIs like Java 8’s Stream…
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A Case Study in Analysing Latency: Lock vs Synchronized
In particular in this post we will discuss: Garbage created by java.concurrent.Lock Comparing Lock to synchronized How to measure latency programatically…
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Don’t Like Throttling?
You don’t have a choice – the underlying system (The JVM here will do it for you). I still recall…
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Top 10 Useful, Yet Paranoid Java Programming Techniques
After coding for a while (eek, almost 20 years or so in my case, time flies when you’re having fun),…
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Are annotations bad?
I eased off into this topic with my principles on my post about Spring XML vs. Annotations that other day.…
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From Imperative to Pure-Functional and Back Again: Monads vs. Scoped Continuations
This post accompanies this video and won’t make too much sense without it Last month I gave a talk at the…
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Making Thread Dumps Intelligent
Long back I had learnt about something called Log MDC, and I was a big fan of it. I was…
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Record Linkage: Playing around with Duke
I’ve become quite interesting in record linkage recently and came across the Duke project which provides some tools to help…
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Java Everywhere: Write Once Run Anywhere with DukeScript
For quite some time already, Java has been failing on its “write once, run anywhere” promise. DukeScript would like to…
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