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How to Detect Memory Leaks in Java

One of the most important features of Java is the built-in garbage collector (GC), which automates memory management. The GC is capable of handling the majority of memory leak issues because it implicitly handles memory allocation and freeing. While the GC is capable of handling a significant amount of memory, it does not provide a guaranteed solution to memory leaks. The GC is intelligent, but not without flaws. Even with the most attentive developer's applications, memory leaks can occur.

Getting Started With Docker Compose and Speedscale CLI

Observability, introspection, logging, and dependency mapping are critical when building APIs. With the advent of microservice architecture, understanding what happens inside your container is vital during development. Speedscale CLI is a container-centric tool that allows you to monitor inbound and outbound traffic. With Speedscale CLI, you can monitor raw requests, latency, encoding, and detected technologies.

How to Combat Python Memory Leaks

Memory leaks are one of developers’ worst nightmares. They can easily take down a healthy running application within hours if not minutes. It can be difficult to detect some of such leaks since they slowly grow and take over your app’s available memory. On top of it, each programming language manages memory in its own unique ways and hence can leak memory in different ways. Hence proactive measures to identify and prevent such leaks from happening is crucial.

7 Tools that Can Help Automate Repetitive Tasks

How often have you found been buried among piles of emails, expense reports, meeting invites, and other organizational tasks where a little part of you wished that this never-ending to-do list could organize itself on its own or even better, magically vanish? McKinsey reported that in an average workweek, 28% of an employee’s time goes into just responding to emails. Additionally, another 19% is spent on gathering information, while 14% of time is spent on communicative and collaborative tasks.

The Secrets Behind Personalization: The Customer 360 view

In the era of hyper-personalization, your customers expect you to tailor your products and services to a market of one (aka, them). This is hard to do when the majority of big corporations are built for the masses, not for the hyper-niche markets. So how do you move from addressing the “male or female between 20 and 65 years” segment to having personalized conversations? With the Customer 360 view.

Why You Need to Think about API Automation and Scalability

First published on The New Stack. The pandemic has accelerated the shift towards digital channels for banking, retail, and a host of other services. As a result, businesses are shifting their digital transformation initiatives into overdrive in order to meet customer demand for online interactions, which should be both inviting and secure. APIs act as key drivers behind most successful digital enterprises.