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Software Development
Applying Back Pressure When Overloaded
How should a system respond when under sustained load? Should it keep accepting requests until its response times follow the…
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Core Java
Project Jigsaw Booted from Java 8?
In his post Project Jigsaw: Late for the train, Mark Reinhold’s proposes ‘to defer Project Jigsaw to the next release,…
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Enterprise Java
5 tips for proper Java Heap size
Determination of proper Java Heap size for a production system is not a straightforward exercise. In my Java EE enterprise…
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DevOps
GlassFish Operations: Log Notifications
The of the most prominent requirements for application servers derive from the operations space. Taking this into account the next…
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Core Java
Native C/C++ Like Performance For Java Object Serialization
Do you ever wish you could turn a Java object into a stream of bytes as fast as it can…
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Android Core
Android Performance Tweaking: ParseArray Versus Hashmap
One of the more recent Android ADT updates added Android Lint. Lint will check your Android project for simples things…
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Agile
In Agile development planning, a security framework loses out
In Agile Estimating and Planning, Mike Cohn explains the different factors that go into prioritizing work on a software development…
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Software Development
Approaches to XML – Part 1 – XML is not a String…
XML has been around a long time: from memory, I’d guess that it’s about 12-14 years old by now; it’s…
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Software Development
Approaches to XML – Part 2 – What about SAX?
Part 1 introduced the idea that there are different ways to approach XML parsing and highlighted the point that XML…
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