Everyone has an email account. Whether you use it for its intended purpose or not, it’s all but required to use the internet today. Most people I talk to primarily just use email to sign-up for sites, reset passwords, or get specific emails. Their mailboxes are out of control, and for OCD people like myself,…
Category: publicity
Scribe 2.0: Fastest JVM Logger in the World!
An intentionally provocative heading, but one I stand behind until someone can prove otherwise (and I welcome just that). Scribe 1.x was pretty fast (https://matthicks.com/2017/01/12/logging-performance/), but was not written with performance in mind. When I came back around and realized just how fast log4j2 is, I could see no reason why a Scala logging solution shouldn’t be…
Logging Performance
I’ve never been a fan of the setup of logging frameworks as far back as when I was a Java developer. The hassle and complexity of configuring and managing the logging framework was always a big hassle and would often create serious problems in the application if not done right. Even today in Scala it…
Publicity in Open-Source
To my relatively small number of followers, it should come as no surprise that my biggest failing is actually getting much visibility for my vast number of open-source projects I write. To that end I’ve been doing some research and asking other developers to give me some suggestions on how to get more visibility for…