As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) I make sure our production services are efficient, scalable, and reliable. A typical SRE is a master of production, and has to have a good understanding of the wider architecture, and be well versed in many of the fine... (more…)

Barbershop Problem aka. Sleeping Barber problem implementation, java concurrency and synchronisation problem example... (more…)

I developed a very basic benchmark suite to compare different HTTP server’s performance. It is inspired by arcadius/java-rest-api-web…

The JVM’s garbage collectors make use of Thread-Local Allocation Buffers (TLABs) to improve allocation performance. In this article we’re going to understand what TLABs are, how they affect the code generated by the JIT for allocation and what the resulti... (more…)

Follow this tutorial to get started with Java 11 and Vert.x on Kubernetes with OpenFaaS without worrying about mastering YAML or having to optimize a lengthy Docker build. (more…)