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Core Java
Who is stealing your memory? The Application Servers Edition
You create an amazing app. You put it into production. And you notice that you justdo not have enough memory…
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Career
How to Hire Geeks, Brand Your Shop, and Beat the “Talent Shortage”
As a recruiter of software engineers, I hear every day how difficult it is for software companies to find technical…
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Core Java
Guava Splitter vs StringUtils
So I recently wrote a post about good old reliable Apache Commons StringUtils, which provoked a couple of comments, one…
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Enterprise Java
JBoss BRMS Best Practices – tips for your BPM Process Initialization Layer
I have posted some articles in the past on migration strategies, taken closer looks at process layers and provided some…
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Core Java
Google Guava BloomFilter
When the Guava project released version 11.0, one of the new additions was the BloomFilter class. A BloomFilter is a…
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Core Java
Busting PermGen Myths
In my latest post I explained the reasons that can cause the java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space crashes. Now it is time…
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Agile
Agile is Not for Everyone
Someone asked me again about self-assessments for their agile transition. That got me thinking about this problem of transitioning to…
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Enterprise Java
TaskletStep Oriented Processing in Spring Batch
Many enterprise applications require batch processing to process billions of transactions every day. These big transaction sets have to be…
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Enterprise Java
ActiveMQ: Understanding Memory Usage
As indicated by some recent mailing list emails and a lot of info returned from Google, ActiveMQ’s SystemUsage and particularly…
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