Microservices are about applying a group of Best Practices

Microservices Denial A number of times clients have said; they can’t imagine their organisation using Microservices. I found this surprising…

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Micro-services for performance

Overview Microservices is a buzz word at the moment. Is it really something original or based on established best practices.…

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Printing arrays by hacking the JVM

Overview One the most common gotchas in Java, is knowing how to print arrays. If an answer on how to…

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Simple Event Driven design

Overview Developers often ask about the performance or efficiency of a system or their code. What does this really mean?…

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How do low latency applications differ for regular applications?

Overview A common question we get is; What makes a low latency application different? What is it like to read?…

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Common misconception: How many objects does this create?

Overview A common question is how many objects or how many Strings does a section of code create. Often the…

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Custom operators for collections in Java

Overview Operator overloading is available in an number of languages. Java has very limited operator overloading in it’s support for…

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Low latency FIX engine in Java

Overview Chronicle FIX is our Low Latency FIX engine and database for Java. What makes it different is that it;…

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An introduction to optimising a hashing strategy

Overview The strategy that’s used for hashing keys, can have a direct impact on the performance of a hashed collections…

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