Invaluable books for an enterprise software engineer

I am again in the design phase of a very large project. The project context is to provide a new…

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Version control branching strategies

Almost two years ago we started a new project (related to SOA/BPM infrastructure) on a large telco organization. Project is…

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Java Thread at RUNNABLE state is not really running

Recently, I was doing an analysis/tuning on a Java application server installation in order to identify the bottlenecks and fix…

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JRockit – JRCMD useful commands

I have been using JRockit since many years 2007. I find it slower than Hotspot, but it has been always…

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Setup Git server with read/write HTTPS on Debian

Three months ago we decided to move our projects to Git. I guess you already know the advantages of Git…

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Beneficial CountDownLatch and tricky java deadlock

Have you ever used java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch? It’s a very convenience class to achieve synchronization between two or more threads, where allows…

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Concurrency optimization – Reduce lock granularity

Performance is very important in high load multi-threaded applications. Developers must be aware of concurrency issues in order to achieve…

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