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Passionate and pragmatic Software Engineer at the intersection of backend, data engineering, and developer tooling. I’ve started my programming journey more than 8 years ago with a book on learning ...

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Java’s sun.misc.Unsafe class has been in use since 2002. It provides essential low-level methods that framework developers use to deliver otherwise unobtainable features and performance. Unfortunately ...