When you've been writing Java for a while switching to Python can make you a little anxious. Not only are you learning a new language with new idioms and tools, you're also dealing with a language with far less built-in safety. No more type checks, no mor... (more…)

Many developers were burned by the overly complex world of Java back in the early 2000s. The Gang of Four patterns and middleware / J2EE / Java EE led to ridiculous levels of alleged decoupling as is evident in this sequence diagram from an open source J... (more…)

Many developers are (or should be) aware that Java processes running inside Linux containers (docker, rkt, runC, lxcfs, etc) don’t behave as expected when we let the JVM ergonomics set the de… (more…)

Harmony is a free responsive jekyll theme by Gayan Virajith and Maheshika Lakmali. Sourced on Github - https://github.com/gayanvirajith/harmony ... (more…)

Thread dumps are vital artifacts to debug & troubleshoot production performance problems. Thread dump files tend to span for several hundreds of lines (sometimes a few thousands of lines). It i… (more…)