Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. I don’t know anyone who likes investigating a Java heap dump. They can be massive — literally ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Heap dump is a snapshot of the Java memory. It contains information about the Java objects and ...

I'm trying to show the higher ups that our codebase is not using objects correctly. We're making copies of immutable objects all over the place and its driving me mad. However, I have no 'proof' (i.e.

One of the “new and noteworthy” features of NetBeans 7.1 is the ability to compare two heap dumps. Specifically, the easy-to-use feature allows one to quickly ascertain the difference in number of ...

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