Identifying ThreadLocal Memory Leaks in JavaEE Web Apps
A few weeks ago wikis.sun.com powered by Confluence "Enterprise" Wiki grew beyond yet another invisible line that triggered intermittent instabilities. Oh boy, how I love these moments. This time the issue was that Confluence just kept on running out o...
Identifying ThreadLocal Memory Leaks in JavaEE Web Apps
A few weeks ago wikis.sun.com powered by Confluence "Enterprise" Wiki grew beyond yet another invisible line that triggered intermittent instabilities. Oh boy, how I love these moments. This time the issue was that Confluence just kept on running out o...
Announcing grizzly-sendfile!
It's my pleasure to finally announce grizzly-sendfile v0.2 - the first stable version of a project that I started after I got one of those "Sudden Burst of Ideas" last summer.
For people who follow the grizzly development or mediacast.sun.com, this is...
Announcing grizzly-sendfile!
It's my pleasure to finally announce grizzly-sendfile v0.2 - the first stable version of a project that I started after I got one of those "Sudden Burst of Ideas" last summer.
For people who follow the grizzly development or mediacast.sun.com, this is...
"Recovering from Enterprise" video available
It appears that Confreaks has posted the video of my ‘Recovering from Enterprise’ talk from RubyConf 2008. As usual, Confreaks did a great job recording the talks at RubyConf.
For those who missed it, I also posted an article version of my presentation, titled Legos, Play-doh, and Programming.
LEGOs, Play-Doh, and Programming
This article is based on a talk I gave at the 2008 RubyConf in Orlando, Florida, entitled “Recovering from Enterprise: how to embrace Ruby’s idioms and say goodbye to bad habits”.
The other day I went to Target with my son. Like most kids, I think, he’s convinced that Target is a toy store, which just...
BTrace == DTrace for Java
Last week, I was trying to nail down a bug in SunWikis that was triggered by some kind of race condition. These kinds of issues are pretty nasty, especially if the application in question is a pretty complex beast, something that Confluence...DTrace and Java – Observations and Docs
For a long time I've been hearing about DTrace and how cool it was. I read a lot about it and saw some presentation on observing Java apps with DTrace, but only recently have I found enough free time to extensively play with it. And oh boy, it really is cool. But even with...
Catching StackOverflowError and a Bug in Regex Implementation in Java
Shortly after we launched SunWikis almost a year ago, we started having an issue with StackOverflowError, which was occurring when the content of certain wiki pages was being parsed and URLs where being extracted. I documented the issue in CONF-9392.
The problem is not really a bug in Confluence (even though...
The problem is not really a bug in Confluence (even though...
