This article discusses java.util.EnumSet and java.util.EnumMap from Java’s standard libraries.

TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks Round 13

What’s the best way to combine the elements of multiple Streams into a single Stream? This article compares a few different solutions.

If we have a long (64-bit integer) that we serialize into JSON, we might be in trouble if JavaScript consumes that JSON. JavaScript has the equivalent of double (64-bit floating point) for its numbers, and double cannot represent the same set of numbers as long. If we are not careful, our long is mangled in transit.

We started the Framework Benchmarks project to collect data about performance. As the project has matured, we’ve realized it has a new, perhaps even more important reason for being: encouraging both application developers and framework creators to think more about performance.

There are a number of technical reasons for applications suffering performance issues. Too often though, it’s the result of performance needs not being properly assessed at the start of work. The “good problem to have” mentality led to a collective blind eye to performance along the way.

With high-performance software, a single modern server processes over 1 million HTTP requests per second.

Round 1 of the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks Project!

A comprehensive summary of the developer-facing changes coming in Java 8.

In the 1980s, high-tech companies stored information about their customers on their sophisticated and high-cost computer equipment. Back then such practices were exceptional except at relatively large companies. Thirty years later, it’s so commonplace that there are numerous services to store customer data for you “in the cloud.”