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30 Jun 2025

Lua: news

Lua 5.5.0 (beta) released

Lua 5.5.0 (beta) released The beta version of Lua 5.5 has been released for testing.

30 Jun 2025 1:07pm GMT

25 Jun 2025

DZone Java Zone

Essential JVM Tools for Garbage Collection Debugging

Java garbage collection is a boon to programmers, but it can cause headaches in production. Poorly-tuned GC is extremely resource-hungry.

Tuning and troubleshooting GC is therefore an important skill. How do you obtain information on how GC is performing? What tools can you use to identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies?

25 Jun 2025 3:00pm GMT

24 Jun 2025

DZone Java Zone

Advanced Java Garbage Collection Concepts: Weak References, Finalization, and Memory Leaks

The WeakReference() class in Java is often touted as being the answer to memory leaks. However, weak references on their own are not necessarily the answer.

Memory leaks are one of the hardest issues to diagnose. This article looks at a scenario where using weak references in conjunction with an object's finalize() method can result in a memory leak.

24 Jun 2025 5:00pm GMT

Distributed Rate Limiting in Java: A Deep Dive into Bucket4j + PostgreSQL

Important note: There are implementation details for the integration between PostgreSQL and the bucket4j library, specifically for version 8.14.0. The post's author is not responsible for future changes, but I'm 90% sure that it will be accurate for a long time.

Hey everyone!

24 Jun 2025 1:00pm GMT