Plumbr Blog
plumbr.eu · Company blog · on HN since 2011
Company blog of Plumbr, a Java monitoring tool vendor, covering memory leaks, garbage collection, and startup experience.
What HN saysHN commenters link its handbook on Java garbage collection as a comprehensive explanation, and its seed round announcement.
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What HN people wrote when they linked it
rootlocus · 2016-04-23
Here is a pretty comprehensive article on the java garbage collector: https://plumbr.eu/handbook/garbage-collection-in-java that has helped me a lot.
It touches the basic aspects of garbage collecting, and dives into the different kinds of GC available for java at this time.
ivom2gi · 2013-11-12
As covered in the company blog: http://plumbr.eu/blog/happy-to-announce-a-1m-seed-round