Core Java
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Comparing Hashing strategies
Overview Chronicle has a number of implementations for hashing, including City and Murmur. It also has it’s own Vanilla Hash,…
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Writing Data Driven Tests for your Java Application
JUnit is an extremely powerful testing framework that not only provides its users with a facility to write quick and…
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Adding Database Logging to JUnit3
We have written many thousands of JUnit3 tests over the last decade and are now trying to consolidate the results…
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Impulse: “Adventures On The Road to Valhalla”
With all this talk about Java 9 and Project Jigsaw we should not loose sight of another big change coming…
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Flag Parameters and Overloading in Python, Java, and Kotlin
Jumping around between multiple languages can help you notice some differences between idioms and best practices in different languages. One…
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Agrona’s Threadsafe Offheap Buffers
This blog post continues my ongoing series on the Agrona library by explaining how we offer easy access to offheap…
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Common SQL Clauses and Their Equivalents in Java 8 Streams
Functional programming allows for quasi-declarative programming in a general purpose language. By using powerful fluent APIs like Java 8’s Stream…
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A Case Study in Analysing Latency: Lock vs Synchronized
In particular in this post we will discuss: Garbage created by java.concurrent.Lock Comparing Lock to synchronized How to measure latency programatically…
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Don’t Like Throttling?
You don’t have a choice – the underlying system (The JVM here will do it for you). I still recall…
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