Guavate: tiny library bridging Guava and Java8

Java8 is great and adds some useful abstractions to the JDK that have found popularity in the Java community via…

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Using ELK (elasticsearch + logstash + kibana) to aggregate cassandra and spark logs

On one of my current projects we are using Cassandra and Spark Streaming to do some somewhat-close-to-real time analytics. The…

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Spring Test Context Caching + AspectJ @Transactional + Ehcache pain

Are you using AspectJ @Transactionals and Spring? Do you have multiple SessionFactory’s maybe one for an embedded database for unit…

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Multi-tier application + database deadlock or why databases aren’t queues (part1)

Databases aren’t queues. And despite the ubiquitous presence of queuing technology out there (ActiveMQ, MSMQ, MSSQL Service Broker, Oracle Advanced…

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Java final fields on x86 a no-op?

I have always enjoyed digging in to the details of multi-threaded programming, and always enjoy that despite reading for years…

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Java implementation of Optimal String Alignment

For a while, I’ve used the Apache Commons lang StringUtils implementation of Levenshtein distance.  It implements a few well known…

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