Core Java
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Learning about bitmaps
A few weeks ago Alistair and I were working on the code used to model the labels that a node…
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Oracle ships Java 8
Oracle has decided to ship upgrade to JDK (Java Development Kit) 8 on March 18, even though the new release…
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Post-hoc tracing using a debugger
Once nice little features of most debuggers that I have been exercising recently is the ability to log information on…
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Java vs. Native Agents – The Powerful Things They Do
What you should know before installing an agent, and how it affects your code When building a scalable server-side application…
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Mirror Mirror – Using Reflection To Look Inside The JVM at Run-time
Developers: Takipi tells you when new code breaks in production – Learn more We’re all used to employing reflection in…
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Want to get faster with AtomicLong? Make it wait.
I often hear that Java atomic types (java.util.concurrent.atomic) are super-fast and play nicely with highly concurrent code. Most of the…
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How to serialize an array of doubles with a byte (binary delta encoding for low-varianced monotonic sets of floating point data)
Low latency systems require high performance message processing and passing. As in most cases data has to be transfered over…
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The Decorator Pattern
The Decorator Pattern One design pattern that I don’t see being used very often is Decorator. I’m not sure why this…
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On Java Collection Waste
This article is about overhead posed by one of the most popular frameworks used – I bet there is close…
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