Shared subscriptions are a 'new' feature in JMS, that seems to be poorly understood, particularly in a clustered environment. In this article, I explain how shared subscriptions are supposed to work, and what the implications are for load sharing and fault tolerance.

I've just turned 29. Props to this guy for the soul read. These are just some reflections on life so far, and what I'd like to focus on in the future. A major theme of my past year has been on existential issues around work, and I think that going forward, I'll be writing more about other things... but then again,...

The shows that I've watched during my maternity leave

We know that premature optimization is the root of all evil, but we can't know if it's premature without a wider context outside of the codebase.