I/O Demystified

With all the hype on highly scalable server design and the rage behind nodejs I have been meaning to do some…

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IO vs. NIO – Interruptions, Timeouts and Buffers

Let’s imagine a system that sometimes needs to copy a file to a few locations, but in a way where…

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Java Sequential IO Performance

Many applications record a series of events to file-based storage for later use. This can be anything from logging and…

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Java 7: Closing NIO.2 file channels without loosing data

Closing an asynchronous file channel can be very difficult. If you submitted I/O tasks to the asynchronous channel you want…

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Java 7 #8: NIO.2 File Channels on the test bench

Another blog post about new JDK 7 features. This time I am writing about the new AnsynchronousFileChannel class. I am…

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Manipulating Files in Java 7

The following is a modified snippet from a draft of The Well-Grounded Java Developer. It gives you a quick taster…

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