The Dark Side Of Lambda Expressions in Java 8
This post may not make me any new friends. Oh well, I was never really popular at school anyway. But let’s get to the point. Java 8’s biggest feature...
View ArticleNew Parallelism APIs in Java 8: Behind The Glitz and Glamour
I'm a great multi-tasker. Even as I'm writing this post, I can still find room to feel awkward about a remark I made yesterday at a party that had...
View ArticleThe 7 Log Management Tools Java Developers Should Know
Splunk vs. Sumo Logic vs. LogStash vs. GrayLog vs. Loggly vs. PaperTrails vs. Splunk>StormSplunk, Sumo Logic, LogStash, GrayLog, Loggly, PaperTrails - did...
View Article10 Features in Java 8 You Haven't Heard Of
Lambdas lambdas lambdas. That’s all you ever hear about when talking about Java 8. But that’s just one part. Java 8 has a lot of new features - some are...
View Article6 Reasons Not to Switch to Java 8 Just Yet
Java 8 is awesome. Period. But… after we had the chance to have fun and play around with it, the time has come to quit avoiding the grain of salt. All...
View ArticleHow to Instantly Improve Your Java Logging With 7 Logback Tweaks
The benchmark tests to help you discover how Logback performs under pressure Logging is essential for server-side applications but it comes at a cost....
View ArticleAWS Speed Test: What are the Fastest EC2 and S3 Regions?
How do different AWS regions compare to one another? A benchmark of transferring data from EC2 instances to S3 buckets Many developers choose to...
View ArticleOracle’s Latest Java 8 Update Broke Your Tools — How Did it Happen?
If you’ve been keeping up with the news in the Java world lately, you’ve probably heard that the latest Java 8 build released by Oracle, Java 8u11 (and...
View ArticleRoute 53 Benchmark: The New AWS Geolocation's Surprising Results
Latency vs. Geolocation: Testing DNS configurations across multiple EC2 regions using AWS Route 53 If you're using the AWS stack, you’ve...
View ArticleGarbage Collectors - Serial vs. Parallel vs. CMS vs. G1 (and what's new in...
The 4 Java Garbage Collectors - How the Wrong Choice Dramatically Impacts Performance The year is 2014 and there are two things that still remain a...
View ArticleJava 9: The Ultimate Feature List
This post will be updated with new features targeted at the upcoming Java 9 release (last updated: 9/9/2014) The OpenJDK development is picking up...
View Article5 Error Tracking Tools Java Developers Should Know
Raygun, Stack Hunter, Sentry, Takipi and Airbrake: Modern developer tools to help you crush bugs before bugs crush your app With the Java...
View ArticleAppDynamics VS New Relic – Which Tool is Right For You? The Complete Guide
New Relic VS AppDynamics: All the performance features, integrations, installation procedures and pricing plans side by side to help you decide which tool to...
View ArticleBeautiful Exceptions: A New Way to View Server Errors
Here at Takipi we're in the error tracking business. Each day we track more than 500,000 errors coming from hundreds of different companies. Errors across...
View ArticleSupercharged jstack: How to Debug Your Servers at 100mph
A guide for using jstack to debug live Java production servers jstack is like U2 - it’s been with us since the dawn of time, and we can’t...
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