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How to find dead code in your Java services

Picnic Engineering

When building solutions, the code we write can last many years. While casually browsing legacy code we might wonder; is this still used? The missing documentation or outdated tests do not help us answer this. When it is actually not used anymore, it is oftentimes because of historical reasons that code is still around.

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15 Essential Java Full Stack Developer Skills in 2024

Knowledge Hut

Java, as the language of digital technology, is one of the most popular and robust of all software programming languages. It is ideal for cross-platform applications because it is a compiled language with object code that can work across more than one machine or processor. All programming is done using coding languages.

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The Future of Java: Top Trends and Technologies

Knowledge Hut

For over 2 decades, Java has been the mainstay of app development. Another reason for its popularity is its cross-platform and cross-browser compatibility, making applications written in Java highly portable. These very qualities gave rise to the need for reusability of code, version control, and other tools for Java developers.

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The Ultimate Guide to Java Virtual Threads

Rock the JVM

Riccardo is a proud alumnus of Rock the JVM, now a senior engineer working on critical systems written in Java, Scala and Kotlin. Version 19 of Java came at the end of 2022, bringing us a lot of exciting stuff. First, we need to use a version of Java that is at least 19. Another tour de force by Riccardo Cardin. getLogger ( App.

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Scala Vs Python Vs R Vs Java - Which language is better for Spark & Why?

Knowledge Hut

If you search top and highly effective programming languages for Big Data on Google, you will find the following top 4 programming languages: Java Scala Python R Java Java is one of the oldest languages of all 4 programming languages listed here. Java is portable due to something called Java Virtual Machine – JVM.

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Code Review on Printed Paper: an Excerpt from the Twitoons Comic Book

The Pragmatic Engineer

Today’s newsletter closes with a full chapter from this book, visualizing when Elon Musk demanded all Twitter software engineers print out their code on paper (!!) and report for code review. Code review on printed paper: an excerpt from the Twitoons book A year ago, the end of October 2022 was a very turbulent time at Twitter.

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Top 15 Software Engineering Projects 2024 [Source Code]

Knowledge Hut

Code Example javascript import React, { useState, useEffect } from 'react'; import firebase from 'firebase'; function App() { const [courses, setCourses] = useState([]); useEffect(() => { firebase.database().ref('courses/').on('value', cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY) COLOR_BGR2GRAY) _, thresh = cv2.threshold(gray_image,