Java
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Accessing Chronicle Engine via NFS
Overview Chronicle Engine is a data virtualisation layer. It abstracts away the complexity of accessing, manipulating and subscribing to various…
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Teenage Sex and What the sun.misc.Unsafe Misery Teaches Us Generally
Lukas Eder wrote an article about the miseries of the proposed drop off of sun.misc.Unsafe. If you have not heard…
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Java 8’s Method References Put Further Restrictions on Overloading
Method overloading has always been a topic with mixed feelings. We’ve blogged about it and the caveats that it introduces…
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Is using Unsafe really about speed or functionality?
Overview Around 6 years ago, I started using a class which up to that point was just a curiosity sun.misc.Unsafe.…
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Java Numeric Formatting: DecimalFormat
In the post Java Numeric Formatting, I described and demonstrated some of the useful instances provided by NumberFormat static methods…
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ActiveMQ as a Message Broker for Logstash
When scaling Logstash it is common to add a message broker that is used to temporarily buffer incoming messages before…
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Using Java 8 CompletableFuture and Rx-Java Observable
I wanted to explore a simple scatter-gather scenario using Java 8 CompletableFuture and using Rx-Java Observable. The scenario is simple…
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Java SE 8 new features tour: Processing Collections with Streams API
Cleaner, readable, and powerful coding with Java SE 8 Streams….. In this article of the “Java SE 8 new features…
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How and Why to Serialize Lambdas
Overview Serializing lambdas can be useful in a number of use cases such as persisting configuration, or as a visitor…
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