The standard Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is configured to optimize for throughput. But some systems are more interested in low pause/reduced latency and GC (garbage collection) might be one source of pausing. (you can read an interesting article about what latency means to your business)
I have found a post on GigaSpaces forum providing some possible [...]
Here is a short list of links that I have found interesting about the cloud computing during December (the list is by no means complete and most probably more links will be added later). The end of year is usually the time for checking how your last year predictions have worked and to throw out [...]
There is a major update to this post: Update on Commenting Services Face-off. Make sure you read it before jumping to any conclusions!
I have received a lot of feedback from JS-Kit and SezWho which lead to changes in the evaluations. I am working on an update to the post. Meanwhile, you can read Jitendra’s comment [...]
You’ve probably seen it already, but I thought it is worth re-sharing it:
As you can imagine, reducing the 50 years of internet to 8 minutes only is not easy, but the video does a great job explaining the major steps that lead to what we take today for granted.
You can contact me on Alex Popescu [...]
If you are reading this, you already know what BeautifulSoup is and how useful it is while working with XML/HTML in Python (in case you are not familiar with it, I’d encourage you to read its documentation). So I’ll just skip to the main reason of this post: a bug in parsing the <script> tags [...]
