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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 ...

Most modern programming languages use garbage collection, but developers have options for how it is implemented and tuned. Get an overview of how garbage collection works in languages such as Java, ...

Research by Microsoft and Google shows that approximately 70% of all security vulnerabilities are caused by software bugs and vulnerabilities related to memory access, such as buffer overflows, out-of ...

After my previous two posts, several folks asked if it’s possible to do all this stuff from Ruby, rather than using Java or C-based apps shipped with the JVM. The answer is yes! Because of the ...

Java has its security flaws, but it isn't going away any time soon—after all, many important applications run on the technology, especially in business settings. Still, numerous users are worried ...