Java
This blog post is the story of how 6 University of Waterloo "Winterns" managed to build the EatIn Suite - which consists of 3 web services, 2 web apps, and 2 mobile apps - in just 3 weeks.... | Read More
Voldemort Collections: Iterating over a key-value store
04/17/2012
When using a key-value store such as Voldemort, access is usually defined as a hash table, with keys and values. What happens if you need sequential access, like iterating over a linked list?... | Read More
Best Practices for Scaling Java Applications with Distributed Caching
09/20/2011
Come by LinkedIn Headquarters on Wednesday, September 28 for a SVForum Software Architecture and Platform SIG tech talk "Best Practices for Scaling Java Applications with Distributed Caching".... | Read More
The graph coloring throwdown: Haskell vs. C++ vs. Java
09/15/2011
Three engineers, three languages, three colors: in this post, I'll tell you how Haskell, C++ and Java solutions compare when faced with the 3-colorability graph problem at the latest LinkedIn coding... | Read More
Play framework and async I/O
07/05/2011
A few weeks ago, I had the chance to evaluate the Play framework, a high-productivity Java web framework. The thing that really caught my eye was Play's support for asynchronous programming,... | Read More
Tuning Java Garbage Collection for Web Services
06/13/2011
Why am I getting frequent GC pauses? How do I avoid long GC pauses? Concurrent mode failure - how bad is that? In the spirit of teaching people to fish, I thought I'd get together a blog post on how... | Read More
JRuby Meetup at LinkedIn, featuring Nick Sieger
06/12/2011
Are you a Ruby or Java fan, or better yet, both? The next JRuby Meetup is being hosted right here at LinkedIn Headquarters on June 23rd at 6:30 pm and features guest speaker Nick Sieger.... | Read More
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