Chris Wong's Development Blog

I had recently blogged about making concurrent REST calls at scale using HTTP. I had observed that, thanks to async I/O and/or virtual threa...

Java threads were expensive at scale. When your server needs to handle many requests concurrently, and each request needed a thread, the num...

There may be occasions when you need to make multiple HTTP requests. The easy way is to simply make one request after another in sequence. I...

The blog title may be mischievous, but that thought did run through my mind when I last interviewed for a job. I had spoken to 4 companies a...

A recent provocatively titled blog post bashing Java annotations kicked up an amusing amount of controversy. What I find notable about the ...

I’ve expressed my skepticism before that DVCS (distributed version control systems) like Git offer a lot of benefits over traditional versio...

Every once in a while, I see a code pattern that makes me go "hmmm". Once instance of this is code that catches a Hibernate except...

For most of my career, I've used log4j as my logging back end. Whether during development, testing or production, I've encountered s...

Would you describe a programming language to be strongly typed, weakly typed, statically typed or dynamically typed? People often use the te...

The daily standup meeting, also known as the daily scrum, did not work very well for me. One day, we looked at each other and asked "do...

This is another note-to-myself blog post. Like PostgreSQL, Oracle does not create indexes on foreign key columns. This can lead to both poor...

A while back, I watched a presentation on JMS messaging where the presenter (Mark Richards) declared that Spring’s JmsTemplate is “evil,” an...