String Deduplication – A new feature in Java 8 Update 20 08/28/14 by Fabian Lange Strings consume a lot of memory in any application. Especially the char[] containing the individual UTF-16 characters is contributing to... Read more 7 Comments
20% time interviews – Allocation Tracker 08/07/14 by Sascha Fröhlich A few weeks ago, I started a project called “PYP – Promote Your Project”. Its about how the employees at... Read more Leave your thoughts
Fixing Garbage Collection Issues Easily 07/14/14 by Fabian Lange What do you do when your Garbage Collection runs all the time? Well usually you would try to introduce some... Read more Leave your thoughts
Elasticsearch Indexing Performance Cheatsheet 05/09/14 by Patrick Peschlow You plan to index large amounts of data in Elasticsearch? Or you are already trying to do so but it turns out that throughput is... Read more 7 Comments
Faster and Cleaner Code since Java 7 04/24/14 by Fabian Lange Every Java developer with more than a few months of coding experience has written code like this before: try {... Read more 1 Comment
Writing better Caches in Action: Improving Joda Time 04/07/14 by Fabian Lange Working with time and date in any programming language is a mess. To get an idea how much of an... Read more Leave your thoughts
Ceph Object Storage as fast as it gets or Benchmarking Ceph 03/03/14 by Lukas Pustina CenterDevice is a distributed document management and sharing software without any single centralized component. In our next evolution we are... Read more 5 Comments
Why 35GB Heap is Less Than 32GB – Java JVM Memory Oddities 02/26/14 by Fabian Lange When I run the following Java program, which consumes all free memory with artificial data structures, something interesting happens. Something... Read more 3 Comments
Debunking the APM myth busters 02/21/14 by Mirko Novakovic Today I’ve read a blog entry by Roman Spitzbart that is titled APM Myth Busters: Sampling is as Good as... Read more Leave your thoughts
