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Google Remote Procedure Call (gRPC) Example in Payara Server

Google Remote Procedure Call, or gRPC, is an open source Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework focused on high performance and is portable to any environment. It is an alternative to REST, deemed by many as more efficient. After one of our customers requested it, the extension became available in our April 2022 Payara Community and Enterprise releases: 5.2022.2 and 5.38.0.  …

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Using Git Interactive Rebase

This tutorial will cover how to clean up your Git commit history with Git interactive rebase, both via the IntelliJ IDEA UI and from the command line. Git interactive rebase allows you to change individual commits, squash commits together, drop commits or change the order of the commits. This allows you to clean up your Git commit history to make …

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Cassandra Performance: Throughput, Responsiveness, Capacity, and Cost

For scalable data workloads like Cassandra, performance and capacity are simply a matter of cost. JVM choice and configuration can dramatically impact that cost. The Azul Platform Prime JVM significantly improves Cassandra performance and reduces the cost of Cassandra clusters. Background We set off to characterize the impact of JVM choice and configuration on Cassandra load carrying capacity: the capacity …

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