Why we dropped Eclipse in favour of IntelliJ

As a background – all of us in Plumbr have all been using Eclipse for as long as we can…

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On a quest for missing stacktraces

One comment to our recent blog post brought back some memories about a specific experience. The type of experience I…

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Throwing Exceptions – slow and ugly

This post is about a historical experience in conjunction with recently applied performance optimization techniques. Years ago I was swearing…

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Why is your software aging?

I recently stumbled upon a term software aging. My first thoughts on the subject were not too positive, especially after…

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Understanding the OutOfMemoryError

Whenever you find yourself staring a stacktrace with OutOfMemoryError in it, it should all be crystal clear. The program has…

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Reducing memory usage with String.intern()

Every now and then you have a dying production application at hand. And you know you need to patch it…

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Why does my Java process consume more memory than Xmx?

Some of you have been there. You have added -Xmx option to your startup scripts and sat back relaxed knowing…

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Reducing memory consumption by 20x

This is going to be another story sharing our recent experience with memory-related problems. The case is extracted from a…

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How to create a memory leak

This is going to be a rather evil post – something you will be googling when you really wish to…

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