Kafka Benchmark on Chronicle Queue

Overview I was recently asked to compare the performance of Kafka with Chronicle Queue.  No two products are exactly alike,…

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Men in Tech

Background Between my partner and I, we have six daughters, and as they have grown I have thought more interested…

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lambdas and side effects

Overview Java 8 has added features such as lambdas and type inference. This makes the language less verbose and cleaner,…

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An Inconvenient Latency

Overview Vendors typically publish numbers they are happy with, and avoid telling you about a product’s weaknesses.  However, behind the…

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Try optimising the memory consumption first

Overview You would think that if you wanted your application to go faster you would start with the CPU profiling.…

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Compounding double error

Overview In a previous article, I outlined why BigDecimal is not the answer most of the time. While it is…

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If BigDecimal is the answer, it must have been a strange question

Overview Many developers have determined that BigDecimal is the only way to deal with money.  Often they site that by…

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Making operations on volatile fields atomic

Overview The expected behaviour for volatile fields is that they should behave in a multi-threaded application the same as they…

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Adding @atomic operations to Java

Overview How might atomic operations work in Java, and is there a current alternative in OpenJDK/Hotspot it could translate to.…

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