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…)

Problem Statement Even the most basic problems become interesting when you dig deep enough. Today, I would like to do a deep dive into measuring time in Java. We will start with the very basics of the Java API and gradually move lower in our stack: throug... (more…)

This post was written by Bitbucket user Anton Lawrence. Security is an essential aspect of software development. When overlooked, development teams… (more…)

Developers use APIs to for everything! You build APIs for your own apps to consume, or as a part of a microservices architecture. Bottom line, you’re buildin... (more…)

Introduction In this article, I will give an overview of the microservices patterns Event... (more…)