There is some overlap -- but they're fundamentally different. Java instrumentation will track each and every instance of a given metric. This can create performance issues. Java sampling involves ...

I was impressed with how Andres Almiray‘s performed as a substitute speaker for Hamlet D’Arcy‘s JavaOne 2010 presentation “Code Generation on the JVM” and looked forward to his presentation of his own ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. I don’t know anyone who likes investigating a Java heap dump. They can be massive — literally ...

The Scala programming language, which runs on the Java Virtual Machine, has made some inroads into enterprise deployments, but improvements in areas such as tooling will help take it even further, the ...