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Core Java
5 Coding Hacks to Reduce GC Overhead
In this post we’ll look at five ways in which we can use efficient coding to help our garbage collector…
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Agile
Commitment considered harmful
Some Agile evangelists are very keen on the idea of “Commitment.” i.e. the development team “commit” to doing an amount…
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Core Java
C++ like Java for low latency
Overview Previously I wrote an article on C like Java. This is term I had come across before. However, on…
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Scala
Managing congested actors in Akka
There comes a time in an Akka application when an actor can longer handle increasing load. Since each actor can…
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Core Java
Creating External DSLs using ANTLR and Java
In my previous post quite sometime back I had written about Internal DSLs using Java. In the book Domain Specific…
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Software Development
How to implement Document Versioning with Couchbase
Introduction Developers are often asking me how to “version” documents with Couchbase 2.0. The short answer is: the clients and…
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Agile
Agile Development leads to Alzheimer’s
Iterative development and design helps you to reach your way towards understanding what the customer really needs, to try out…
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Software Development
We Should Not Make (or Enforce) Decisions We Cannot Justify
Software development is a strange industry. New technologies emerge in a fast pace and old technologies become obsolete. The ability…
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Software Development
Why Write Requirements
There is a lot of advice out there for how to write requirements. There is not as much discussion about…
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