Have you ever thought of writing your own compiler? There are a number of good reasons to do this. It's incredibly educational and can be useful. It can solve problems and produce abstractions that ...

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Unstructured data is huge – in all senses. There is lots of it, and file or object sizes can be large. Go back just a decade and the predominant method of storage for unstructured data would have been ...

Dozer is an open source (Apache 2 license) “Java Bean to Java Bean mapper that recursively copies data from one object to another.” As this description from its main web page states, it is used to map ...

The rise of the cloud, the emergence of hyper-convergence and the lightning-fast speeds of non-volatile memory express (NVMe) flash have perhaps masked some of the fundamentals of storage. But, at ...

AutoMapper makes life easy, but has its limits. Learn how to implement a custom mapper to handle complex data structures or incompatible types. When working on applications, you will often need to ...