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Enterprise Java
Accessing Chronicle Engine via NFS
Overview Chronicle Engine is a data virtualisation layer. It abstracts away the complexity of accessing, manipulating and subscribing to various…
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Core Java
Teenage Sex and What the sun.misc.Unsafe Misery Teaches Us Generally
Lukas Eder wrote an article about the miseries of the proposed drop off of sun.misc.Unsafe. If you have not heard…
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DevOps
Application Performance Management solutions for the modern software-defined businesses
In our previous article, we discussed the basics of Application Performance Management (APM) and how it can be used to…
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Core Java
Java 8’s Method References Put Further Restrictions on Overloading
Method overloading has always been a topic with mixed feelings. We’ve blogged about it and the caveats that it introduces…
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Software Development
The difference between Efficiency and Performance – It’s not all about the Big O
As a software developer you should understand how to make the best use of your hardware in order to give…
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Software Development
4 out of 5 Java Developers Failed to Solve This Question
Results from the Java Deathmatch – A puzzle minigame for developers A few months ago we released a new side…
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Core Java
Is using Unsafe really about speed or functionality?
Overview Around 6 years ago, I started using a class which up to that point was just a curiosity sun.misc.Unsafe.…
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Core Java
Java Numeric Formatting: DecimalFormat
In the post Java Numeric Formatting, I described and demonstrated some of the useful instances provided by NumberFormat static methods…
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Software Development
Extending PostgreSQL: Complex Number Data Type
A few years ago I discussed creating user-defined types using PL/java. (Introduction to PostgreSQL PL/Java, part 4: User Defined Types)…
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