Core Java
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(Part 1 of 3): Synopsis of articles & videos on Performance tuning, JVM, GC in Java, Mechanical Sympathy, et al
I have been contemplating for a number of months about reviewing a cache of articles and videos on topics like Performance…
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Using Matchers in Tests
Gone are the days when we were forced to write way too many assertion lines in our testing code. There…
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G1 vs CMS vs Parallel GC
This post is following up the experiment we ran exactly a year ago comparing the performance of different GC algorithms…
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Investigating Memory Leaks Part 1 – Writing Leaky Code
I found this little problem the other day: there’s this server that runs for a while and then falls over.…
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A Lesser-Known Java 8 Feature: Generalized Target-Type Inference
Going through the list of Java 8 features, Generalized Target-Type Inference struck me as a particularly interesting, lesser-known gem. It…
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Crashing your JVM
Thorough testing can be harmful as we discovered recently. Extending our test coverage led us to a several-hours debugging session…
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Preventing System.exit calls
When developing containers that run code written by other developers it is prudent to safe-guard against System.exit calls. If a…
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HOW TO: Stereotyping a java Class
In this HowTo post I will show how we can stereotype a class with another class. Why is this useful?…
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Stacktraces are telling the truth. But not the whole truth.
Our company is all about making the cause of software errors transparent to developers and operations. As opposed to alternative…
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