MongoDB Sharding: What to Know Before You Shard a Collection
When we think about a system that operates at scale, we are usually talking about an application that needs to serve millions of users. This …
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Unikernel: Profiling and Troubleshooting JVM on Nanos Unikernel
Profiling a Java Application Running Inside an Unikernel with JProfiler Unikernels are often associated with minimalism and tight resource …
Reactive Java with Project Reactor
Over the past decade, the Java ecosystem has gradually abandoned the idea that increasing the number of threads is the scalable solution to …
From a JAR to a full-fledged MacOS app
A couple of years ago, I developed a small Kotlin GUI to help me rename my files in batch. I actually created it with different JVM …
BoxLang 1.10.0: Functional Arrays, Elegant Loops & Distributed Locking
We're excited to announce BoxLang 1.10.0, a feature-packed release that brings powerful functional programming capabilities, elegant loop …
GraphQL for Java Developers: Building a Flexible Data Layer
For many years, REST has been the standard architectural style for creating APIs in the Java ecosystem. Frameworks such as Spring MVC and, …
Feedback on checked exceptions and lambdas
I got a lot of interesting feedback on Checked exceptions and lambdas. Let's start with my own: after writing the post, I realized I had …
Bringing Java Closer to Education: A Community-Driven Initiative
Over the past decades, Java has proven itself to be one of the most reliable, versatile, and widely used programming languages in the world. …
Claude Code SonarQube MCP: A Java Developer’s Workflow
Stay in the flow with the Claude Code SonarQube MCP integration. Verify Java code, fix security issues, and check quality gates directly …
Abstracting Data Access in Java With the DAO Pattern
The Data Access Object (DAO) pattern is a structural pattern that isolates your application's business logic from persistence operations. By …