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Core Java
What’s Even Harder Than Dates and Timezones? Dates and Timezones in SQL / JDBC!
There was an interesting discussion recently on the jOOQ mailing list about jOOQ’s current lack of out-of-the-box support for TIMESTAMP…
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Enterprise Java
Learning Spring-Cloud – Writing a microservice
Continuing my Spring-Cloud learning journey, earlier I had covered how to write the infrastructure components of a typical Spring-Cloud and…
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Enterprise Java
Spring Batch – Replacing XML Job Configuration With JavaConfig
I recently assisted a client in getting up and running with a Spring Batch implementation. The team had decided to move forward…
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Core Java
The Features Project Jigsaw Brings To Java 9
So, Project Jigsaw… We already know quite a bit about it but have not yet seen the details of how…
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Core Java
Writing a download server. Part III: headers: Content-length and Range
We will explore more HTTP request and response headers this time to improve download server implementation: Content-length and Range. The…
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DevOps
7 Monitoring Tools to Prevent Your Next Production Doomsday
What are some of the most useful monitoring tools for Java developers? Monitoring is an essential function in production environments…
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Enterprise Java
How To Stream/Serialize JPA Result As JAX-RS Response For Large Data
There are times that retrieving a large data set through JPA is necessary (e.g. more than 1,000,000 records) and having…
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Software Development
The Prolonged Death Spiral Business Model
I recent message from a friend tells me he is putting on his parachute. He can’t take it anymore. He’s…
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Software Development
R: Speeding up the Wimbledon scraping job
Over the past few days I’ve written a few blog posts about a Wimbledon data set I’ve been building and…
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