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Yes, but this "enterprise" crapware is the transaction system of your bank, and those "few bytes" are your last paycheck. Have some respect for the software that makes the world ar…

Grew up on a farm in Scandinavia and have witness a few of these up close. The amount of debris they can accumulate is staggering - mostly nails, and corroded clumps of metal (prob…

I don't know, S3 and DynamoDB are both eventual consistent. And keeping in mind the CAP-theorem it makes sense. And I for one love SimpleDB - it's just that, simple. And great for …

Could you elaborate on which issues you ran into. We are in the process of upgrading to from jdk7 to jdk8 (at-least for the services we see having a long lifespan) and it would be …

Yep, no problems here. 80GB dataset, indexes are around 10GB, one master, two replicas. Lots of reads, all writes are done in bulk during the night (low read throughput). We also u…

I worked in the air-force as ground-crew servicing F-16 for a year. Every now and then they would exercise gun target-practice by having one jet tow a red "sail" (I think it was ca…

I'm from Norway and I had the same experience when visiting Berlin last year - having to take out euro-bills from the ATM. Here in Norway I never carry any actual money - I only ev…

Typically you create your class manually and map to-and-from json-strings. In a web-context you'd usually let the container handle the serialization/de-serialization (jax-rs), in o…

Give him a break, this is how projects - and especially personal projects - develop. You find a cool idea you want to explore on, the end product might be something totally differe…

They do sell very well here in Norway at least - and is said to behave decent during the winter: http://www.klikk.no/motor/bil/biltester/article896042.ece

Been using http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-dbutils for the same purpose. Works well when I don't need the slede-hammer a full ORM-framework can be. Will look into JDBI as …

The replication factor is set to 3, meaning that all data is stored on tree separate nodes - in different availability zones. So in practice the writes per sec is 3x.

I've been a java developer for over 10 years (8 professionally). I've worked as a consultant on large government projects, using legacy frameworks like Struts/Tiles and being force…

Having used HazelCast extensively, and considering making some of my code Sirius-depentant, I can tell you that it is not more advanced. Sirius is basically just a distributed key-…

I'd say that depends on what kind of service the provider is offering. Later generation cloud providers might specializing in providing such VMs - Heroku and GAE comes to mind. But…

Started with Visual Basic back in 98, switched to java around 2003 and haven't looked back. I can still remember I thought the "Obejct" in "Object Related Programming" was referrin…

When the cloud was first being introduced one of the core principles was that your instances should be considered ephemeral - and that they can terminate at any time, without any n…

These guidelines does not apply to all websites but (and I translate) "private and government enterprises, communities and organizations that uses the web as it's main channel for …

..which is exactly why we have scala, groovy, etc!

One great thing about these new language features is that you don't have to use them. You can run on jdk8 and program as if it was your grandmas vm. This was true for generics and …

I really respect Coda Hale for the work he has done on Dropwizard, and shares his views on Java vs. scala. As for the java-hate - in my 10 years of java-programming it has always b…

OVH got a pretty good write-up on their blog[1], well worth a read. It looks as if their solution should be able to mitigate layer 3/4 attacks. From the blog: "Our surplus network …

I admit I find my-self thinking from time to time that I need to "return multiple values from this method". But this is not often, and in most cases I find that it is a result of b…

>Java devs: what is faster, hashmap or hashtable? Ok, as a Java-dev I'll bite: They are not really comparable - because their use depends on the situation. One is meant for concurr…

If I understand this correctly then the huge improvement in latency (from 200ms to 3ms) comes from not having to deal with slow clients directly. Traffic to your front-end server a…