Kieran France

  https://blog.idrsolutions.com/author/kieranf/ Kieran France is a programmer for IDRSolutions in charge of there internal test suite. In his spare time he enjoys tinkering with gadgets and code.

 



25 Stories by Kieran France

Improved Garbage Collection in Java 13

The JVM has several Garbage Collectors available that you are able to specify, each with its own advantages. In Java 11 the Z Garbage...
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How Java 12 has made microbenchmarking easier

This month we are focusing on Java 12 new features you should know about. In other articles, we looked at improvements to Garbage Collection, Java...
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OpenJDK projects you should know about – Loom

This month we are focusing our articles on various OpenJDK projects that are currently in development. So far we have already covered Projects Valhalla, Panama,...
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Tips for transitioning from Hudson to Jenkins

Transitioning from Hudson to Jenkins is actually quite simple once you get into it. Whilst we were making our transitions we found some issues...
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Pros and Cons of Bitbucket Pipelines

Recently I have been looking at our current test suite looking for ways to improve our own tests. As we use Bitbucket we have...
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