Thomas Dullien discusses how language design choices impact performance, how Google's monorepo culture and Amazon's two-pizza-team culture impact code efficiency, and why statistical variance is an ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. last week took an important step toward commercializing an experimental Java performance measurement tool called JFluid, moving the two-year-old project from the Sun Labs ...

I'd like to buy a license for a Java profiler, both to have and use, and to improve my performance analysis skills. YourKit, one of the two (as far as I know) big commercial profilers is currently on ...

Modern software is such an unwieldy multidimensional beast that no single development tool can ever hope to give programmers the complete picture of their creations. Even performance—that elusive ...