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Thought Java was 'free'? Think again (and you owe us $$$ in 2017)...

After working with Teamed and practicing PDDfor more than a year, I was wondering how the methodology would work with a fresh project. I had never worked ona... (more…)

Despite it assosiation with large, bureacratic, and slow enterprise shops, and big, unwieldy frameworks, recent additions to the Java language, tooling, and libraries, combined with more lean programming styles, have turned programming Java into a rather ... (more…)

This is basically how MongoDB ensures uniqueness of entity ids across multiple machines and also within local machine processes. Here is a very nice explanation if you’re interested: http:… (more…)