This was my first visit to JavaZone, both as an attendee and as a speaker. From my experience so far — conferences I’ve visited, and lectures I view from conferences around the world — this is the best Java conference in the world (so far). What makes this conference so…

I’ve been using Meetup.com for almost 1.5 years as the part being in the the leading team of Java.IL community. As such I’ve noticed that are many important features missing. I wanted to place them in a Feature Request site but couldn’t find any (hint, hint). …

A couple of days ago, I needed to setup Logz.io’s first internal Maven repository. We’re a youngish company in the field of Log Analysis and haven’t needed a Maven repository so far. We rely heavily on open source technologies but the need to fork and patch these technologies arises all…

Just a while ago I was chasing a memory leak we had at Logz.io while refactoring our Log Receiver. We are using Netty, and after a major refactoring we did we noticed there’s a gradual decrease of free memory to the machine. The first action was to try to run…

I found that Pull requests — i.e. Code Reviews — makes you research topics you wouldn’t when writing the same code your self. Here’s an example from today. We had a method which converts a String to byte[] using UTF-8 encoding. …

If you have TCP server which has certain logic operating only when you get “Connection reset by peer” IOException, you’d want to test that in Unit testing, right? It should work reliably both on Mac and Linux at the very least. It took me half a day to track the…

Remarkable workshop about Kaizen which leap jumped my development practices (Lecturer: @angel_m) Kaizen — In General Publicly show gratitude and thank your team members on the work they did. Make a habit or a regular ceremony in which you list the awesome work a team member achieved this Sprint/Iteration and and thank him. Kaizen…