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Will your applications run faster with Java 9?

• Ioannis Kolaxis
• 3 Min To Read
• 30 Nov, 2017
• • Software engineering

Java 9 comes with several enhancements on how Strings are being handled, promising to improve the performance of your applications.

Applications debugging using Flame Graphs

• Benjamin Parmentier
• 3 Min To Read
• 19 Oct, 2017
• • Software engineering

When we face bugs or performance issues in production we have to worry about how we can make a good analysis without worsering the situation. Reproducing a problem in staging or in a development environment is a real challenge. And debugging tools are often not so easy to use in production without making a huge impact on applications.

Java 9: discovering modules

• 9 Min To Read
• 21 Sep, 2017
• • Software engineering

After some tough negotiations within the JCP (Java Community Process), OpenJDK 9, the Reference Implementation of Java Standard Edition, is to be released on September 21 2017. It will bring about 80 new features, the most important one being Java Platform Module System (JPMS), more known by its project name Jigsaw. For the rest of this article, I will use both terms (JPMS and Jigsaw) without differentiation.

Property Based Testing in Scala

• Michel Daviot
• 4 Min To Read
• 19 Jul, 2017
• • Software engineering

Problem Overview

Earlier this year was the qualification round for Google Hashcode 2017 .