Nicholas Hagen

As promised in prior articles, I will demonstrate how to create a custom pipeline factory in Netty that provides some custom features including: Auto-discovery of annotated handlers (including pluggable annotation provider) Auto-provisioning of stateful and stateless handlers Auto-pooling of stateful handlers (including pluggable pooling provider)

So I was looking at design patterns and read across the factory pattern and the pooling pattern. I know what both of those do independently but never considered them together and as a result, my mind started racing with ideas. One of the many problems with applications in terms of performance is garbage collection. Pooling [...]