Working with off-heap storage can make a big difference when working with large data sets. But how do you know how much memory you have at your disposal? Read this article and find out!
In this piece, we interview Joshua Drake and Amanda Gilmore, speakers at PGConf US 2016, for a bit of background info about each of their personal experiences with Postgres and catch a quick glimpse of what they'll be covering in their upcoming talks.
The problem of WebSocket load balancing has always been a hot issue when managing large systems. This article takes a look at some possible solutions to that problem.
The following article highlights nine aspects of PL/SQL error management (you should be aware of before embarking on your next app dev effort. It also offers links to a number of Oracle LiveSQL scripts you can run to validate the good-to-knows.
See how detecting Java race conditions is actually rather easy. In Part I of this two-part article, you will see how to detect lost updates, the first type of Java race conditions.
The Base64 encoding and decoding is a long overdue JDK API feature. As part of Java 8 the Base64 encoding and decoding feature came into the Java standard library.
Working with the XML Digital Signature Standard should be a straight-forward affair, but if you're using JAXB instead of DOM, what can you do? This article details my journey of trying to get these two technologies to play nicely together.