I understand the idea of Java-the-language being rather hard to maintain in a backwards-compatible way. I understand the idea of JDK API, such as the collections, to be rather tough not to break. Yes. I don't understand why Java still doesn't have multiline string literals. How often do you write JDBC code (or whatever other … Continue reading Please, Java. Do Finally Support Multiline String Literals
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Top 10 Easy Performance Optimisations in Java
There has been a lot of hype about the buzzword "web scale", and people are going through lengths of reorganising their application architecture to get their systems to "scale". But what is scaling, and how can we make sure that we can scale? Different aspects of scaling The hype mentioned above is mostly about scaling … Continue reading Top 10 Easy Performance Optimisations in Java