Java-Scala Interoperability
To many people, Java is programming. It’s the only programming language most of my non-technical friends could name off-hand, and the first one that many programmers learn. Since its initial appearance...
View ArticleOn Comparable Noise and Satisfiable Sound
The Motivation Working for a startup can be intense. Many in this great city succumb to the pressures of work life and relinquish their purely intellectual pursuits. Here at Knewton, however, our love...
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Cassandra and Hadoop – Introducing the KassandraMRHelper
Here at Knewton we use Cassandra for storing a variety of data. Since we follow a service-oriented architecture, many of our internal services are backed by their own data store. Some of the types of...
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Why Knewton Is Trying Kotlin
Kotlin is a statically typed general purpose JVM language that provides flawless interoperability with Java. It is open source and developed by Jetbrains,creators of IntelliJ IDEA. It is concise,...
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Analyzing Java “Garbage First Garbage Collection” (G1GC) Logs
Garbage Collection can take a big toll on any Java application, so it’s important to understand its behavior and impact. After a JVM upgrade of Knewton’s Cassandra database, we needed a tool to compare...
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