Shooting yourself in the foot with Random number generators

This is not going to be one of the posts explaining how a random number generator is not so random…

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Improving lock performance in Java

Plumbr is the only solution that automatically detects the root causes of Java performance issues by interpreting application performance data.…

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Locking and Logging

Plumbr has been known as the tool to tackle memory leaks. As little as two months ago we released GC…

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OutOfMemoryError on overprovisioned heap

Why am I getting the OutOfMemoryError when allocating a data structure that should happily fit within the heap I have…

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How I broke our continuous deployment

This post is about a failure – more precisely about how I managed to bring our release processes to their…

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Crashing your JVM

Thorough testing can be harmful as we discovered recently. Extending our test coverage led us to a several-hours debugging session…

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Stacktraces are telling the truth. But not the whole truth.

Our company is all about making the cause of software errors transparent to developers and operations. As opposed to alternative…

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Coarse-grained benchmarking

While developing our software, we are all about metrics – even to the fact where I am pretty sure at…

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Most popular application servers

This is the second post in the series where we publish statistical data about the Java installations. The used dataset…

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