Chronicle Journal – Customizable Data Store

Overview The way to make any data structure or algorithm as fast as possible is for the code to do…

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Managing your application as a file system

Overview “A database is a smart file system” — Anonymous “Your database/application is a file system” — Chronicle Software. Why…

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Comparing Hashing strategies

Overview Chronicle has a number of implementations for hashing, including City and Murmur. It also has it’s own Vanilla Hash,…

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Wiring YAML to a file or network with Chronicle Wire

Overview Chronicle Wire is designed to get the benefits of a text protocol in terms of ease of development and…

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Using YAML over the network

Overview There is a number of popular text based protocols for exchanging data over the network. These include XML, FIX,…

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Accessing Chronicle Engine via NFS

Overview Chronicle Engine is a data virtualisation layer.  It abstracts away the complexity of accessing, manipulating and subscribing to various…

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Is using Unsafe really about speed or functionality?

Overview Around 6 years ago, I started using a class which up to that point was just a curiosity sun.misc.Unsafe.…

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How and Why to Serialize Lambdas

Overview Serializing lambdas can be useful in a number of use cases such as persisting configuration, or as a visitor…

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Puzzler: nested computeIfAbsent

Overview The Java 8 libraries have a new method on map, computeIfAbsent. This is very useful way to turn your…

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