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Core Java
CRaC and Checkpoint/Restore: The Third Startup Strategy
Java has a startup problem, and most of us have felt it. A service can take seconds to become ready,…
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Meta JCG
[FREE EBOOKS] Amplify You, Machine Learning For Dummies, 3rd Edition & Four More Best Selling Titles
Hello fellow geeks, Fresh offers await you on our Information Technology Research Library, please have a look! Amplify You: How…
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Software Development
Metastable Failures and Retry Storms: When Your Resilience Code Is the Outage
A short slowdown should end when the cause ends. Sometimes it does not, because the safety net keeps the system…
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Java
The Upload UI Details I Wish We Had Got Right Sooner
The ticket that finally connected everything said a customer had uploaded the same forty files twice. One file in the…
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Core Java
BEAM’s Hot Code Swapping vs. the JVM’s HotSwap Ceiling
Erlang can replace a running module without stopping anything. Java’s built-in HotSwap can only edit method bodies. Why the gap?…
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Meta JCG
Office 2024 Home drops to a flat $119.97 for anyone tired of renting Word
TL;DR: Own Microsoft Office 2024 Home for Mac or PC with a one-time payment of $119.97 (reg. $149.99) through November…
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Core Java
Why the Java Vector API Is on Its 12th Incubation (JEP 537) and What It Is Really Waiting For
Twelve rounds of incubation is a strange record for an API that, by all accounts, works. So what is the…
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Software Development
COBOL and the Economics of a “Dead” Language That Still Moves Trillions
Every few years someone declares COBOL dead. Yet banks, insurers and governments keep running it. Unlike a language in decline,…
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Software Development
TLA+ Explained: How Amazon Proves Distributed Designs Correct Before Writing Code
You have probably read about Raft, Paxos and the FLP impossibility result. However, there is a quieter question behind all…
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