Kyle Carter

Backend Architect at MasterControl

Joined on Mar 12, 2017

Kyle Carter

Feb 21

Supporting Cross Node Interactive Queries In Kafka Streams

#kafka #streams #upstash

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Effective Java: Beware the Performance of String Concatenation

Yeah, you are exactly right. This is a great further optimiza...

May 19 '21

Effective Java: Write Doc Comments For All Exposed APIs

No, I have slowed down a little but there is still more than ...

Jan 26 '21

Effective Java! Design Method Signatures Carefully

Ugh. Thanks for pointing it out, it's fixed now. 👍

Nov 25 '20

Effective Java! Check Parameters for Validity

Yeah Lombok is a great way to generate the nonnull checks. I ...

Nov 12 '20

Effective Java! Use Marker Interfaces to Define Types

Sure. For example if my method takes a Set. Set adds nothing ...

Sep 14 '20

Effective Java! Use Marker Interfaces to Define Types

I definitely agree that interfaces most often are used to def...

Sep 13 '20

Effective Java Tuesday! Let's Consider Static Factory Methods

Thank you so much!

Aug 11 '20

Effective Java! Use EnumSet Instead of Bit Fields

Sorry about that, that was a copy and paste error. Should be ...

Aug 7 '20

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Kyle Carter

Feb 21

Effective Java: Consider Serialization Proxies Instead of Serialized Instances

#java #effective #serializable #serialization

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Feb 16

Effective Java: For Instance Control, Prefer Enum types to readResolve

#java #effective #serializable #serialization

3 min read

Kyle Carter

Feb 1

Effective Java: Write readObject Methods Defensively

#java #effective #serializable #serialization

4 min read

Kyle Carter

Jan 21

Effective Java: Consider Using a Custom Serialized Form

#java #effective #serializable #serialization

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Jan 18

Effective Java: Implement Serializable With Great Caution

#java #effective #serializable #architecture

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Jan 4

Effective Java: Prefer Alternatives To Java Serialization

#java #effective #serialization #architecture

4 min read

Kyle Carter

Dec 16 '21

Effective Java: Don't Depend on the Thread Scheduler

#java #effective #concurrency #architecture

3 min read

Kyle Carter

Dec 8 '21

Effective Java: Use Lazy Initialization Judiciously

#java #effective #concurrency #architecture

3 min read

Kyle Carter

Dec 2 '21

Effective Java: Document Thread Safety

#java #effective #concurrency #architecture

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Kyle Carter

Nov 19 '21

Effective Java: Prefer Concurrency Utilities Over wait and notify

#java #effective #concurrency #architecture

5 min read

Kyle Carter

Nov 13 '21

Effective Java: Prefer Executors, Tasks, and Streams to Threads

#java #effective #concurrency #architecture

3 min read

Kyle Carter

Nov 7 '21

Effective Java: Avoid Excessive Synchronization

#java #effective #concurrency #architecture

5 min read

Kyle Carter

Nov 3 '21

Effective Java: Synchronize Access to Shared Mutable Data

#java #effective #synchronization #architecture

4 min read

Kyle Carter

Oct 27 '21

Effective Java: Don't Ignore Exceptions

#java #effective #exceptions #architecture

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Kyle Carter

Oct 10 '21

Effective Java: Strive for Failure Atomicity

#java #effective #exceptions #architecture

3 min read

Kyle Carter

Sep 29 '21

Effective Java: Include Failure-Capture Information in Detail Messages

#java #effective #exceptions #architecture

2 min read

Kyle Carter

Sep 9 '21

Effective Java: Document All Exceptions Thrown By Each Method

#java #effective #exceptions #architecture

1 min read

Kyle Carter

Sep 9 '21

Effective Java: Throw Exceptions Appropriate To The Abstraction

#java #effective #exceptions #architecture

3 min read

Kyle Carter

Aug 23 '21

Effective Java: Favor The Use of Standard Exceptions

#java #effective #exceptions #architecture

4 min read

Kyle Carter

Aug 17 '21

Effective Java: Avoid Unnecessary Use of Checked Exceptions

#java #effective #exceptions #architecture

2 min read

Kyle Carter

Aug 11 '21

Effective Java: Use Checked Exceptions for Recoverable Conditions

#java #effective #exceptions #architecture

2 min read

Kyle Carter

Jul 27 '21

Effective Java: Use Exceptions for Only Exceptional Circumstances

#java #effective #exceptions #architecture

3 min read

Kyle Carter

Jul 18 '21

Effective Java: Adhere to Generally Accepted Naming Conventions

#java #effective #convention #architecture

3 min read

Kyle Carter

Jul 1 '21

Effective Java: Optimize Judiciously

#java #effective #optimization #architecture

2 min read

Kyle Carter

Jun 25 '21

Effective Java: Use Native Methods Judiciously

#java #effective #native #architecture

2 min read

Kyle Carter

Jun 17 '21

Effective Java: Prefer Interfaces To Reflection

#java #effective #interface #architecture

2 min read

Kyle Carter

Jun 3 '21

Effective Java: Refer to Objects By Their Interfaces

#java #effective #interface #architecture

2 min read

Kyle Carter

May 19 '21

Effective Java: Beware the Performance of String Concatenation

#java #effective #string #architecture

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Apr 27 '21

Effective Java: Avoid Strings When Other Types Are More Appropriate

#java #effective #string #architecture

1 min read

Kyle Carter

Apr 24 '21

How I Built an Overengineered Serverless Uptime Checker

#serverless #ocr #architecture

6 min read

Kyle Carter

Apr 16 '21

Effective Java: Prefer Primitive Types to Boxed Types

#java #effective #boxed #architecture

3 min read

Kyle Carter

Mar 23 '21

Effective Java: Avoid Float and Double If Exact Answers Are Required

#java #effective #float #architecture

2 min read

Kyle Carter

Mar 10 '21

Effective Java: Know and Use the Libraries

#java #effective #libraries #architecture

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3 min read

Kyle Carter

Feb 25 '21

Effective Java: Prefer for-each loops to traditional for loops

#java #effective #foreach #architecture

2 min read

Kyle Carter

Feb 11 '21

Effective Java: Minimize The Scope of Local Variables

#java #effective #scope #architecture

2 min read

Kyle Carter

Jan 19 '21

Effective Java: Write Doc Comments For All Exposed APIs

#java #effective #documentation #architecture

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Kyle Carter

Dec 24 '20

Effective Java! Return Optionals Judiciously

#java #effective #optional #architecture

4 min read

Kyle Carter

Dec 13 '20

Effective Java! Return Empty Collections or Arrays, Not Nulls

#java #effective #null #architecture

2 min read

Kyle Carter

Dec 4 '20

Effective Java! Use Varargs Judiously

#java #effective #varargs #architecture

2 min read

Kyle Carter

Nov 24 '20

Effective Java! Use Overloading Judiciously

#java #effective #overload #architecture

2 min read

Kyle Carter

Nov 17 '20

Effective Java! Design Method Signatures Carefully

#java #effective #method #architecture

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Kyle Carter

Nov 11 '20

Effective Java! Make Defensive Copies When Necessary

#java #effective #immutable #architecture

3 min read

Kyle Carter

Nov 3 '20

Effective Java! Check Parameters for Validity

#java #effective #method #architecture

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Kyle Carter

Oct 27 '20

Effective Java! Use Caution When Making Streams Parallel

#java #effective #streams #architecture

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Kyle Carter

Oct 20 '20

Effective Java! Prefer Collection To Stream as a Return Type

#java #effective #streams #architecture

2 min read

Kyle Carter

Oct 13 '20

Effective Java! Prefer Side-Effect-Free Functions in Streams

#java #effective #streams #architecture

3 min read

Kyle Carter

Oct 6 '20

Effective Java! Use Stream Judiciously

#java #effective #streams #architecture

3 min read

Kyle Carter

Sep 30 '20

Effective Java! Favor the Use of Standard Functional Interfaces

#java #effective #lambda #architecture

3 min read

Kyle Carter

Sep 22 '20

Effective Java! Prefer Method References to Lambdas

#java #effective #lambda #architecture

2 min read

Kyle Carter

Sep 15 '20

Effective Java! Perfer Lambdas to Anonymous Classes

#java #effective #annotation #architecture

3 min read

Kyle Carter

Sep 9 '20

Effective Java! Use Marker Interfaces to Define Types

#java #effective #annotation #architecture

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Kyle Carter

Sep 1 '20

Effective Java! Consistently Use the Override Annotation

#java #effective #annotation #architecture

2 min read

Kyle Carter

Aug 26 '20

Effective Java! Prefer Annotations to Naming Patterns

#java #effective #annotation #architecture

6 min read

Kyle Carter

Aug 18 '20

Effective Java! Emulate Extensible Enums With Interfaces.

#java #effective #enum #architecture

2 min read

Kyle Carter

Aug 11 '20

Effective Java! Use EnumMap instead of Ordinal Indexing

#java #effective #enum #architecture

2 min read

Kyle Carter

Aug 4 '20

Effective Java! Use EnumSet Instead of Bit Fields

#java #effective #enum #architecture

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Kyle Carter

Jul 28 '20

Effective Java! Use Instance Fields Instead of Ordinals

#java #effective #enum #architecture

2 min read

Kyle Carter

Jul 22 '20

Effective Java! Use Enums Instead of int Constants

#java #effective #generic #architecture

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Kyle Carter

Jul 15 '20

Effective Java! Consider Typesafe Hetergenous Containers

#java #effective #generic #architecture

3 min read

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