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Core Java
(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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Enterprise Java
MongoDB Facts: 80000+ inserts/second on commodity hardware
While experimenting with some time series collections I needed a large data set to check that our aggregation queries don’t…
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Core Java
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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Ceylon
A paradox about typesafety and expressiveness
It’s often argued that dynamic typing is more expressive, and I am, for the most part, willing to go along with…
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Core Java
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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Groovy
Uncompressing 7-Zip Files with Groovy and 7-Zip-JBinding
This post demonstrates a Groovy script for uncompressing files with the 7-Zip archive format. The two primary objectives of this…
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Core Java
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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Software Development
14 Code Refactoring smells you can easily sense and What you can do about it?
This post is specifically intended to Project Managers although developers and testers can also get reasonable inputs from this post.…
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Agile
Agile is like sex
I’ll get back to software development economics, there are more posts in the works, but right now I need to…
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