Forbidden APIs of Java

Software developers try to take care of many cases when they develop a software. They make checks for null comparisons, checking to be negative for a function variable which should be positive, etc. They also want to write generic software which can run on Windows, Linux, etc. cause they…

Implementing Filter and Bakery Locks in Java

In order to understand how locks work, implementing custom locks is a good way. This post will show how to implement Filter and Bakery locks at Java (which are spin locks) and will compare their performances with Java’s ReentrantLock. Filter and Bakery…

Performance Comparison of Multithreading in Java

There are different techniques for multithreading in Java. One can parallelize a piece of code in Java either with synchronize keywords, locks or atomic variables. This post will compare performances of using synchronized keyword, ReentrantLock…

Apache Fluo: Implementation of Percolator Which Populates Google’s Search Index

Apache Nutch 1.14 is Released

The Apache Nutch [0] Project Management Committee are pleased to announce the immediate release of Apache Nutch v1.14. We advise all current users and developers of the 1.X series to upgrade to this release.

Spark Backend for Apache Gora

I’ve worked for Spark backend of Apache Gora as my GSoC 2015 project and finished it. At this blog post, I’ll explain how it works and how to use it. First of all, I suggest you to read my previous posts about my GSoC 2015 acceptance…

Security Layer for NutchServer

I’ve worked for Security Layer for NutchServer of Apache Nutch as my GSoC 2016 project and finished it. At this blog post, I’ll explain how it works and how to use it. First of all, I suggest you to read my previous posts about my GSoC 2016 acceptance…