Java
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Akka vs Storm
I was recently working a bit with Twitter’s Storm, and it got me wondering, how does it compare to another…
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Garbage Collection in Java (2)
Parallel Scavenge Today we cover how Parallel GC works. Specifically this is the combination of running a Parallel Scavenge collector…
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MongoDB Primary Keys Are Your Friend
All documents in a MongoDB collection have a primary key dubbed _id. This field is automatically assigned to a document…
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Blog Categorisation using Encog, ROME, JSoup and Google Guava
Continuing with Programming Collection Intelligence (PCI) the next exercise was using the distance scores to pigeonhole a list of blogs…
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Screaming fast Lucene searches using C++ via JNI
At the end of the day, when Lucene executes a query, after the initial setup the true hot-spot is usually…
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Spring MVC Error handling flow
There are broadly three ways of handling an exception flow using Spring MVC, the objective being to intercept any application…
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Working with Amazon Simple Queue Service using java
Amazon Simple Queue Service or SQS is a highly scalable hosted messaging queue provided by Amazon Webservice stack. Amazon SQS…
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Garbage Collection in Java (1)
This is the first in a series of posts about Garbage Collection (GC). I hope to be able to cover…
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Common Red Flags in Java Development
In several years of developing, reading, reviewing, and maintaining hundreds of thousands of lines of Java code, I have become…
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