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Enterprise Java
Tomcat’s Graceful Shutdown with Daemons and Shutdown Hooks
My last couple of blogs have talked about long polling and Spring’s DeferredResult technique and to demonstrate these concepts I’ve…
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Software Development
Offensive programming
How to make your code more concise and well-behaved at the same time Have you ever had an application that…
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Core Java
Fine-Grained Concurrency with the Guava Striped Class
This post is going to cover how to use the Striped class from Guava to achieve finer-grained concurrency. The ConcurrentHashMap…
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Agile
3 Styles: Iterative, Incremental and Evolutionary Agile (part 1)
When I’m teaching training courses (as I was this week at Skills Matter) or advising clients on the requirements side…
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DevOps
Why I Infracode
I’ve been involved in, and observed, some recent conversations which have me thinking about why I do what I do.…
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Software Development
Tips for Code Review Success
I’ve had the opportunity to be involved in various group peer code reviewing scenarios and sometimes I find myself wondering…
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Core Java
How To Write Your Own Java / Scala Debugger
With this post we’ll explore how Java / Scala debuggers are written and work. Native debuggers such WinDbg for Windows…
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DevOps
Why we double down on AWS and the cloud
Blippex.org published a blog post yesterday why they moved away from AWS. In the blogpost and HN discussion we recognized…
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Career
On Developer Hiring – The Elephant In The Room
The software industry is obsessed with hiring. Every week we get new articles on the topic on how to snag…
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