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Core Java
How much memory do I need
What is retained heap? How much memory will I need? This is a question you might have asked yourself (or…
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DevOps
Chef Happens – Managing Solaris with Chef
Adding Solaris servers to be managed by Chef was the most annoying entry in our Wix.com DevOps backlog for almost…
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Software Development
Nurturing Leadership
I had an email conversation with a colleague about when you let people fail versus when you rescue them—how you…
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Enterprise Java
Calculating A Co-Occurrence Matrix with Hadoop
This post continues with our series of implementing the MapReduce algorithms found in the Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce book.…
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Core Java
When using direct memory can be faster
Overview Using direct memory is no guarantee of improving performance. Given it adds complexity, it should be avoided unless you…
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Software Development
When Premature Optimization Isn’t
Earlier this month, I decided I wanted to write a post on not all optimization being premature optimization after hearing…
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Enterprise Java
Forcing Tomcat to log through SLF4J/Logback
So you have your executable web application in JAR with bundled Tomcat (make sure to read that one first). However…
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Enterprise Java
Event streaming with MongoDB
MongoDB is a really great “NoSQL” database, with a very wide range of applications. In one project that we are…
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Software Development
Not All Optimization Is Premature
The other day the reddit community discarded my advice for switching from text-based to binary serialization formats. It was labeled…
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