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Java 12 – Spring cleaning

Bywoden 2019-02-252024-07-19

We talk about the new features in Java 12, all about garbage collectors and switch statements.

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Writing a custom log4j appender in java, using RabbitMQ

Bywoden 2021-03-282024-07-19

We look into writing a custom log4j appender in java and how to send you to log messages with an appender to RabbitMQ. Writing a custom appender is challenging due to performance considerations.

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Advent of Code 2023 – Day 17

Bywoden 2023-12-23

I’m trying to solve all the Advent of Code puzzles in this video series.

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I was participating in a webinar with Zeev explaining the new implementation of PHP 7 and the improvements in memory management giving better performance. He pointed us to some blog posts, by Nikita Popov (@nikita_ppv), explaining improvements to the underlying structure of values, arrays, objects a.s.o. In this blog post I want to summaries some…