Java
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Reducing the frequency of major GC pauses
This post will discuss a technique to reduce the burden garbage collection pauses put on the latency of your application.…
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Dead simple configuration
Whole frameworks have been written with the purpose of handling the configuration of your application. I prefer a simpler way.…
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Akka Notes – Actor Logging and Testing
In the first two parts (one, two), we briefly talked about Actors and how messaging works. In this part, let’s…
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Neo4j: COLLECTing multiple values
One of my favourite functions in Neo4j’s cypher query language is COLLECT which allows us to group items into an…
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Spring WebApplicationInitializer and ApplicationContextInitializer confusion
These are two concepts that I mix up occasionally – a WebApplicationInitializer and an ApplicationContextInitializer, and wanted to describe each…
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Exploring the SwitchYard 2.0.0.Alpha2 Quickstarts
In one of my last posts I explained how you get started with SwitchYard on WildFly 8.1. In the meantime…
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Embedded Jetty and Apache CXF: secure REST services with Spring Security
Recently I run into very interesting problem which I thought would take me just a couple of minutes to solve:…
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Optional and Objects: Null Pointer Saviours!
No one loves Null Pointer Exceptions ! Is there a way we can get rid of them ? Maybe . . . …
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JUnit in a Nutshell: Yet Another JUnit Tutorial
Why Another JUnit Tutorial? JUnit seems to be the most popular testing tool for developers within the Java world. So…
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