Core Java
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Simple Class to Measure Latency
This is a very simple class I wrote to measure latency. It’s not the Rolls Royce solution that is HDRHistogram but…
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#102030: Celebrating 20 Years of Java by Running 20 10K in 30 Days
May 23rd, 1995 was a momentous day in the history of technology. It does not seem the industry realized that…
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What are the bad features of Java
Overview When you first learn to develop you see overly broad statements about different features to be bad, for design,…
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Lessons Learnt Translating 25k line of C# into Java
For various reasons I’ve recently completed a project converting a complex financial application from C# to Java. The reasons for…
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Cheating with Exceptions – Java 8 Lambdas
Cheating with Exceptions – Java 8 Lambdas Leaving aside the religious debate about Checked vs Runtime exceptions, there are times…
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Validating Class/Package Dependencies with Classycle
Classycle is a very nice analyzer and dependency checker for class and package dependencies. It lets you define package groups…
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Logging stop-the-world pauses in JVM
Different events can cause the JVM to pause all the application threads. Such pauses are called Stop-The-World (STW) pauses. The…
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When JVMs Crash: How to Investigate the Root Cause of Your Toughest Errors
What can you learn when your application crashes? I think, “Hindsight is 20 / 20” is one of the favourite…
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FileSystemMap: A Natural Way to Interact with your File System
As part of a project I’m working on at the moment I’ve been looking at creating a FileSystemMap. I’ve started…
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