According to the accepted wisdom, if you’re building a high-speed trading system, you probably want to use C++ instead of Java: It’s closer to the metal and is therefore faster (i.e., lower latency). (more…)

ksuid - Java implementation of K-Sortable Globally Unique IDs... (more…)

Oracle has proposed a September release date for Java 9, following modularity controversy... (more…)

A while ago, I had to analyse a large java heap dump, generated by one of our servers after a memory leak. This was hard. I usually use Eclipse MAT for the job, but this time, it was so large the tool could not parse the heap dump in an acceptable time, ... (more…)

RefDiff - A tool to compare different versions of Java source code to find refactoring changes between them... (more…)