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Enterprise Java
Lessons learned: ActiveMQ, Apache Camel and connection pooling
Every once in a while, I run into an interesting problem related to connections and pooling with ActiveMQ, and today…
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Core Java
Allocating memory for the JVM: a case study
This post is about a recent performance tuning exercise. As always, these start with vague statements about symptoms. This time…
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Core Java
Synthetic and bridge methods
If you have ever played with reflection and executed getDeclaredMethods() you may have been surprised. You may get methods that…
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Software Development
Caching best practices
Introduction There is an irresistible attraction to writing custom caching solutions, since it seems to be the easiest path to…
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Software Development
An Open Source License to Increase Your Street Credibility
Many of us geeks don’t really care about users, tractions, etc. when we spam GitHub with our little toy projects.…
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Software Development
The Foreman Role in a Team
There is a lot of discussion about the need for a foreman role in a software team. Robert C. Martin…
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Software Development
Dependency inversion: the structure logarithm
Re-examining benefits. Through the corroded dripping pipes of transitive dependencies, ripple effects gush. Programmers sometimes spend arduous days clambering down…
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Software Development
We Need More Foremen
This week I read a blog post titled Where is the Foreman by Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin. It made me…
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Core Java
Common gotchas in Java
Overview Java is a minimalist language with deliberately less features than other languages, never the less it has edge cases…
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