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Dark Launching and Shadow Testing

Posted: December 27, 2023 | Testing , Dark Launching , Shadow Testing 
In this blog article, I want to discuss launching application features out of sight in the web services landscape and introduce a small Java framew...

Virtual Threads Introduction

Posted: November 16, 2023 | Programming , Java 
In 2018, I had the privilege to follow a talk by Alan Bateman at Devoxx. It was about Fibers in Java, which we are familiar with from other program...

Consistent Hashing Demystified

Posted: May 17, 2023 | Cloud Engineering , Distributed Systems , Consistent Hasing 
A consistent Hash Ring is a widely used technique in distributing and load-balancing data or operational workload across multiple system components...

Rate Limiting with Token Buckets

Posted: June 1, 2022 | Cloud Engineering , Rate Limiting , Resilience 
In services landscape, rate limiting is not only a requirement to protect the available resources from getting exhausted and failing in the end, bu...