
Apache Apollo is a next-generation, high-performance, multi-protocol messaging broker built from the ground up to one day be a drop-in replacement of...
0 replies - 3464 views - 01/04/13 by Christian Posta in Articles

This tutorial will teach you how to apply colors to our monochromatic sprite, as well as optimizing the rendering engine.Let me know what style game we...
0 replies - 1738 views - 01/02/13 by Allen Coin in Articles

This article will provide you with a tutorial allowing you to determine how much and where Java heap space is retained from your active application Java...
0 replies - 3493 views - 12/30/12 by Pierre - Hugues... in Articles

There is a common misconception that because the JIT is smart and
synchronization can be eliminated for an object which is only local to a
method that...
1 replies - 1791 views - 12/29/12 by Peter Lawrey in Articles

Hi! Merry Christmas everyone :) Quite recently I've seen a nice presentation about Google Guava and we came to the conclusion in our project that it could be...
0 replies - 3264 views - 12/28/12 by Marcin Grzejszczak in Articles

Overview
In a previous article I stated that the reason the deserialisation of objects was faster was due to using recycled objects. This is potentially...
0 replies - 2918 views - 12/27/12 by Peter Lawrey in Articles

Overview
There are a number of articles on whether synchronized or Locks are faster. There appear to be opinions in favour of either option. In this article I...
0 replies - 4426 views - 12/27/12 by Peter Lawrey in Articles

This article will describe the complete root cause analysis and solution of a HashMap High CPU problem (infinite looping) affecting a Weblogic 10.0...
0 replies - 3160 views - 12/27/12 by Pierre - Hugues... in Articles

Even if you are using a GUI tool to connect to your MySQL servers, one day or another, you will have to deal with the command line. So it is nice to know a...
2 replies - 2641 views - 12/26/12 by Peter Zaitsev in Articles

This article will provide you with an overview of the JRockit Java Heap Space vs. the HotSpot VM. It will also provide you some background on Oracle future...
2 replies - 4308 views - 12/26/12 by Pierre - Hugues... in Articles

Overview
Sometimes a question comes up about how much work allocating a new local variable takes. My feeling has always been that the code becomes...
1 replies - 4619 views - 12/25/12 by Peter Lawrey in Articles

When facing a stuck Thread problem, a common question is how can I dynamically kill the observed stuck Threads in order to quickly recover my...
2 replies - 4495 views - 12/25/12 by Pierre - Hugues... in Articles

When we’re looking at benchmarks we typically run some stable workload and we run it in isolation – nothing else is happening on the system. This is...
0 replies - 2371 views - 12/24/12 by Peter Zaitsev in Articles

In this week’s news, we find out how Facebook approaches release engineering, how Evernote solves its Big Data problem, and what trends lie in store for...
0 replies - 1991 views - 12/24/12 by Leigh Shevchik in Articles

It’s been a while since I posted about a workflow-related bug, and it’s not because of my mad WF skillz – it had more to do with Manu’s expertise in...
0 replies - 1455 views - 12/24/12 by Sasha Goldshtein in Articles