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  • Adding Flexibility to your REST Implementation with Yoga

    In cases when one desires to provide fine-grained control over the structure of the document responses based on the needs of their clients, Yoga is an open source alternative that integrates with existing REST applications. Yoga provides clients the ability to use selectors, which can be used as projection, selection and join relational operators.

  • Virtual Panel: Performance Tuning Face-Off

    In the world of application delivery, performance tuning still seems to elude the mainstream. InfoQ spoke to five luminaries of the performance monitoring space about why and what can be done. The result was quite an active debate. Members of the virtual panel: • Ben Evans • Charlie Hunt • Kirk Pepperdine • Martin Thompson • Monica Beckwith

  • Java Garbage Collection Distilled

    CMS, G1, Young Gen, New Gen, Old Gen, Eden, and the hundreds of JVM start-up flags... does this all baffle you when trying to tune the garbage collector to get the required throughput and latency from your Java application? Don’t worry, you are not alone. This article will attempt to explain the tradeoffs when choosing and tuning garbage collection algorithms for a particular workload.

  • Interview: Today's Java with Cay Horstmann

    Cay S. Horstmann, author of Core Java Volumes 1 & 2, has written about Java since the beginning. Topics include the forthcoming Java 8, Java's vendor support, and the language's role in modern software development.

  • Creating Resilient Software with Akka

    Akka Tech Lead Dr. Roland Kuhn offers a behind the scenes look at Akka, showing what the driving forces behind the development of its guiding principles are.

  • Project Lambda from the Inside. An Interview with Brian Goetz

    JSR-335: Project Lambda has been called the "defining" project in Java 8. InfoQ spoke to Oracle's Brian Goetz, JSR 335 spec lead about his observations on Project Lambda from the inside.

  • Tuning the Size of Your Thread Pool

    Thread pools can help us control the number of threads used by a system. A properly sized thread pool will allow as many requests to run as the hardware and application can comfortably support. A poorly tuned thread pool risks completely destabilizing the system. In this article we see how to apply the "measure don’t guess” mantra to properly size our production thread pools.

  • Interview and Book Review: The LogStash Book, Log Management Made Easy

    James Turnbull makes a compelling case for using Logstash for centralizing logging by explaining the implementation details of Logstash within the context of a logging project. The book targets both small companies and large enterprises through a two sided case; both for the low barrier to entry and the scaling capabilities.

  • Native Cross-Platform Apps with Tabris

    Tabris is the first Java toolkit for the cross-platform development of native mobile applications. It combines native user experience with tailor-made, native controls and functions. But what exactly does native mean?

  • 9 Fallacies of Java Performance

    Over the past 18 years Java has evolved into the premiere language of the enterprise. Yet cognitive fallacies persist about Java performance. In this article we examine some popular misconceptions.

  • Choosing the Right ESB for Your Integration Needs

    Kai Wähner explains the differences between an integration framework, an ESB and an integration suite, following with advice for selecting the right one from existing commercial and open source solutions.

  • How Would You Build Up a City from Components?

    Aliaksei Papou explores how components and common design patterns such as the Observer and Finite State Machine make it possible to design an application such that it can grow and change according to your needs using the analogy of a house.

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