Takipi 2.0: Trends and DevOps Integrations

Visualize all log events and exceptions in production directly from your JVMs – Send as metrics into more than 20 graphing and alerting…

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Supercharged jstack: How to Debug Your Servers at 100mph

A guide for using jstack to debug live Java production servers jstack is like U2 – it’s been with us since the…

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Garbage Collectors – Serial vs. Parallel vs. CMS vs. G1 (and what’s new in Java 8)

The 4 Java Garbage Collectors – How the Wrong Choice Dramatically Impacts Performance The year is 2014 and there are…

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Java 8 StampedLocks vs. ReadWriteLocks and Synchronized

Synchronized sections are kind of like visiting your parents-in-law. You want to be there as little as possible. When it…

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10 Features in Java 8 You Haven’t Heard Of

Lambdas lambdas lambdas. That’s all you ever hear about when talking about Java 8. But that’s just one part. Java…

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The 7 Log Management Tools Java Developers Should Know

Splunk vs. Sumo Logic vs. LogStash vs. GrayLog vs. Loggly vs. PaperTrails vs. Splunk>Storm Splunk, Sumo Logic, LogStash, GrayLog, Loggly, PaperTrails…

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Java 8 LongAdders: The Right Way To Manage Concurrent Counters

I just lOvE new toys, and Java 8 has a bunch of them. This time around I want to talk…

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15 Must Read Java 8 Tutorials

Java 8 was released last month and is just chock-full of new features and behind-the-scenes optimizations. The internet has been…

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New Parallelism APIs in Java 8: Behind The Glitz and Glamour

I’m a great multi-tasker. Even as I’m writing this post, I can still find room to feel awkward about a…

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