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A guide to using logpoints when a timeout gets in the way, with a gRPC deadline case study

Can AI deterministically find the root cause of a flaky test with the help of a skill?

A Spring Boot app produced duplicate invoice numbers.

A walkthrough of the trigram-based algorithm for finding duplicate and similar text fragments

Let's discuss how Java source code, class files, and debuggers are connected

Using an LLM for project localization instead of a dedicated translation service.

Adding features to the duplicate finder with Junie, a new coding agent by JetBrains

Build documentation-powered features using retrieval-augmented generation and semantic markup

Define specifications and the interface for the duplicate finder

Find the cause of a Java exception and correct the error while the program is still running

Analyze IntelliJ IDEA's curious performance bottleneck using its own profiler

Inspect the memory of a running Java program and change its behavior without accessing the source code

At times the debugger may cause your Java application to slow down.

A periodic reminder that arithmetic operations with the double-precision floats may cause surprising outcomes

A typical debugging session starts with setting breakpoints.

Let's put AI to some work and see if it can localize an entire webapp, using Spring Petclinic as an example

Ongoing project to minimize duplicates and promote reuse in docs and other massive text repositories

A couple of useful tricks for debugging with print statements

Investigating memory leaks is not a typical use case for allocation profiling.

Debugging UI freezes is easier when you use the right tools and techniques.

A practical example of profiling and optimizing CPU-intensive tasks in a Java application