Java Community Survey Results: 74% of Developers Want Less Verbosity

A new JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP) is making waves in the Java community: JEP 286. The proposal suggests to introduce…

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How We Used Slack, Scala and Play to Automate Our Lunch Order

Automate all the things! Slack slash commands to the rescue Every day at noon, lunch orders are launched. All the…

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Still Unsafe: The Major Bug in Java 6 That Turned into a Java 9 Feature

What does the future hold for sun.misc.Unsafe? With 2015 having just drawn to a close, we thought this would be…

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Deployment Management Tools: Chef vs. Puppet vs. Ansible vs. SaltStack vs. Fabric

What are the pros and cons of Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack and Fabric? Working in production today often means continuous deployments…

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Alerting in Production: 6 Tools to Track Errors and Uptime

What are some of the best alerting tools for tracking errors and uptime? Having all the automation and management in…

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7 Monitoring Tools to Prevent Your Next Production Doomsday

What are some of the most useful monitoring tools for Java developers? Monitoring is an essential function in production environments…

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Infer: A Look Into Facebook’s New Java Static Analysis Tool

How can you improve your Java development workflow with Facebook’s Infer? If you keep in the loop with tech buzz (which…

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Java Micro Frameworks: The New Trend You Can’t Ignore

What are Java micro frameworks and why should you use them? Every language has tradeoffs. With Java, the tradeoff for…

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When JVMs Crash: How to Investigate the Root Cause of Your Toughest Errors

What can you learn when your application crashes? I think, “Hindsight is 20 / 20” is one of the favourite…

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