In the previous post, we laid out the foundations to create our own custom Kubernetes controller. We detailed what a controller was, and that its only requirement is to be able to communicate with HTTP/JSON. In this post, we are going to finally start dev... (more…)

The JVM’s garbage collectors make use of Thread-Local Allocation Buffers (TLABs) to improve allocation performance. In this article we’re going to understand what TLABs are, how they affect the code generated by the JIT for allocation and what the resulti... (more…)

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Problem Statement Even the most basic problems become interesting when you dig deep enough. Today, I would like to do a deep dive into measuring time in Java. We will start with the very basics of the Java API and gradually move lower in our stack: throug... (more…)