Core Java
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Quasar and Akka – a Comparison
The actor model is a design pattern for fault-tolerant and highly scalable systems. Actors are independent worker-modules that communicate with…
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What is Garbage Collection?
The following is an example from our Garbage Collection Handbook which will be published in the forthcoming weeks. In the meanwhile, take…
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Constructors Must Be Code-Free
How much work should be done within a constructor? It seems reasonable to do some computations inside a constructor and…
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How to Access a Method’s Result Value From the Finally Block
While the JVM is a stack-based machine, the Java language doesn’t really offer you any way to access that Stack.…
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Immutable Infrastructure, hotdeploys, and the JVM
Do you deploy and undeploy your JVM-based applications (regardless of JVM container/no-container) in production? ie, when you have new versions…
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Performance Comparison of Multithreading in Java
There are different techniques for multithreading in Java. One can parallelize a piece of code in Java either with synchronize…
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Implementing Filter and Bakery Locks in Java
In order to understand how locks work, implementing custom locks is a good way. This post will show how to…
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How Java 9 And Project Jigsaw May Break Your Code
Java 9 looms on the horizon and it will come with a completed Project Jigsaw. I didn’t pay much attention…
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Build Automation Panel
Last Tuesday, I participated in an online panel on the subject of Build Automation as part of Continuous Discussions (#c9d9),…
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