Introduction to Java on Arm You might associate Arm primarily with smartphones and the Java-based Android runtime. However, OpenJDK has supported AArch64 on Linux since 2014— before Arm-based cloud instances were widely available. Fast forward a decade and major cloud …
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Sliding Window Log Rate Limiter (Redis & Java)
This article is also available on YouTube. Check it out! The Sliding Window Log is a more precise way to handle rate limiting. Instead of splitting time into fixed intervals like the Fixed Window Counter , it keeps a log …
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Fixed Window Counter Rate Limiter (Redis & Java)
This article is also available on YouTube! The Fixed Window Counter is the simplest and most straightforward rate-limiting algorithm. It divides time into fixed intervals (e.g., seconds, minutes, or hours) and counts the number of requests within each interval. If …
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Foojay Podcast #64: Interviews at JFall about open source, OpenJDK evolutions, Project Loom, JVM, and more!
Let’s wrap up this year with more interviews from the JFall conference. In this episode you’ll learn more about Foojay, JVM internals and writing your own programming language, Project Loom and structured concurrency, learning at conferences, code reviews, creating desktop …
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Exploring New Features in JDK 23: Module Design Pattern with JEP-476
Although the module design pattern can be implemented in many different ways, the main motivation behind using it remains the same. This is the isolation of a specific section into small building blocks, which are the so-called modules. Therefore, the …
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Exploring New Features in JDK 23: Just-Write-And-Run prototyping with JEP-477 not only for beginners
It seems like it’s never been easier to start writing a simple program that can be turned into a more advanced one as development progresses. Let’s explore possibilities delivered by JDK 23 release. From the early days, Java may have …
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Book Review: Mastering the Java Virtual Machine
Otávio Santana’s "Mastering the Java Virtual Machine" takes readers on an insightful journey through the inner workings of the JVM. As I read this book, I found myself reconnecting with the fundamentals of Java programming while also discovering new depths …
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Deep dive into bits, bytes, shorts, ints, longs, signed, and unsigned with Java
On the Pi4J discussion list, someone recently asked what the best and easiest way is in Java to convert a byte value. In Java, there is no distinction between signed and unsigned bytes, which can be confusing. My book “Getting …
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Exploring New Features in JDK 23: Gatherers upgrades pipeline design pattern JEP-473
Source-code flexibility goes hand in hand with maintainability and testability. The Java language benefits not only from its maturity but also from the fact that it is strongly typed. This may initiate possible discussion topics, as each defined variable requires …
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Exploring New Features in JDK 23: Builder Pattern Simplicity with JEP-455 Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch (Preview)
The runtime initiation of any program requires allocating a given memory and after many additional steps the first object could be created. In a previous post, we explored how to improve maintainability of complex creation processes by using the factory …
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