Java
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Deprecating Java’s Finalizer
JDK-8165641 (“Deprecate Object.finalize”) has been opened to “deprecate Object.finalize()” because “finalizers are inherently problematic and their use can lead to…
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Consumer Driven Testing with Pact & Spring Boot
Recently a colleague of mine stumbled across Pact.io, Our current application had grown to over 50 services and we we’re starting…
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Apache Lucene 7.0 Is Coming Soon!
The Apache Lucene project will likely release its next major release, 7.0, in a few months! Remember that Lucene developers generally try…
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Beware of slow transaction callbacks in Spring
TL;DR If your application is failing to obtain new database connection, restarting ActiveMQ broker may help. Interested? The problem with…
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Run Eclipse IDE on One Version of Java, but Target Another
The Eclipse IDE for Java™ Developers (and the other Java developer variants) is itself a Java application that’s used to build…
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Service Discovery with Java and Database application in DC/OS
This blog will show how a simple Java application can talk to a database using service discovery in DC/OS. Why Service Discovery? An…
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Stateful Containers using Portworx and Couchbase
Containers are meant to be ephemeral and so scale pretty well for stateless applications. Stateful containers, such as Couchbase, need to…
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The ANTLR mega tutorial
Parsers are powerful tools, and using ANTLR you could write all sort of parsers usable from many different languages. In…
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Pipeline as code with a Spring Boot application
This is the last in a serie of posts about continuous delivery based on my local Docker compose stack (see…
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