Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. I don’t know anyone who likes investigating a Java heap dump. They can be massive — literally ...

I'm trying to show the higher ups that our codebase is not using objects correctly. We're making copies of immutable objects all over the place and its driving me mad. However, I have no 'proof' (i.e.

When you create a new object in Java,<br><br>aClass a = new aClass();<br><br>memory is dynamically allocated on the process's heap to store the object instance. A reference to this object is created ...

A major issue stands in the way of Java scalability today, and Cloudera’s Eva Andreasson wants Java developers to stop ignoring it. Here she makes the case for why true Java application scalability ...

An Oracle-developed, low-latency Java garbage collector geared to large heaps could move to the open source community, if a proposal to do so gets community approval. Votes are due by November 8.