Tag: intellij

IntelliJ on steroids with G1 GC

Jun 15, 2018

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Lately, I noticed that IntelliJ started to pause for quite some time during it’s GC cycles, and that it was very frequent when I was editing three files (over 1.2k LOC each) split vertically. The current version of IntelliJ runs on a bundled version of Java 1.8, who’s default garbage collector is Parallel GC. While…
Compile LESS on the fly for your exploded WAR in IntelliJ

Feb 5, 2016

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At CleverTap, we’ve recently started using LESS for dynamic CSS. While it has it’s upsides, the biggest downside was that most of our developers couldn’t use the hot deploy feature for their local deployments. After an hour or so, we came up with a neat solution. There are two parts to this: Just before deploying…