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The easy way to find JMX metrics in the field using jmxsh 26 Jun 2013 | 03:17 pm
(oh look, a proper blog post!) JMX is the de-facto standard in the Java and JVM-based world for exposing service metrics, and feeds nicely to tools like Graphite using JMXTrans and others. However, i...
Links for 2013-06-24 25 Jun 2013 | 04:58 am
Skype’s principal architect explains why they no longer have end-to-end crypto Mobile devices can’t handle the CPU and constantly-online requirements, and an increased reliance on dedicated routing s...
Links for 2013-06-21 22 Jun 2013 | 04:58 am
Java Concurrent Counters By Numbers threadsafe counters in the JVM compared. AtomicLong, Doug Lea’s LongAdder, a ThreadLocal counter, and a field-on-the-Thread-object counter int (via Darach Ennis). N...
Links for 2013-06-20 21 Jun 2013 | 04:58 am
Project Voldemort: measuring BDB space consumption HOWTO measure this using the BDB-JE command line tools. this is exposed through JMX as the CleanerBacklog metric, too, I think, but good to bookmark ...
Links for 2013-06-19 20 Jun 2013 | 04:58 am
Java Garbage Collection Distilled Martin Thompson lays it out: Serial, Parallel, Concurrent, CMS, G1, Young Gen, New Gen, Old Gen, Perm Gen, Eden, Tenured, Survivor Spaces, Safepoints, and the hundred...
Links for 2013-06-18 19 Jun 2013 | 04:58 am
Open Rights Group – EU Commission caved to US demands to drop anti-PRISM privacy clause Reports this week revealed that the US successfully pressed the European Commission to drop sections of the Data...
Links for 2013-06-17 18 Jun 2013 | 04:58 am
Atelier olschinsky – “Cities III 05″ Fine Art Print on Hahnemuehle Photo Rag Bright White, 310g: 40x50cm up to 70x100cm. Some great art based on decayed urban landscape shots, from a Vienna-based desi...
Links for 2013-06-15 16 Jun 2013 | 04:58 am
EU unlocks a great new source of online innovation Today the European Parliament voted to formally agree new rules on open data – effectively making a reality of the proposal which I first put forwar...
Links for 2013-06-14 15 Jun 2013 | 04:58 am
There’s a map for that ‘Not long ago, we began rendering 3D models on GitHub. Today we’re excited to announce the latest addition to the visualization family – geographic data. Any .geojson file in a...
Links for 2013-06-13 14 Jun 2013 | 04:58 am
Spamalot reigns: the spoils of Ireland’s EU kingship | The Irish Times – Thu, Jun 13, 2013 The spam presidency. As European citizens are made the miserable targets of unimpeded “direct marketing”, th...