Toward a Durable Spring PetClinic
Table of Contents OverviewWhat makes a process a good candidate for durability?Spring PetClinic as an Exploratory DeviceStep 1 — Download the Spring PetClinic sourceStep 2 — Analyze the application for durability candidates2a — Analysis: processes that are good candidates for ...
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BoxLang 1.15.0 Released: Blazing Fast Strings, Runtime Portability, and much more
Table of Contents 🔤 Headline: BoxStringBuilder and Dramatically Faster String ConcatenationThe Performance StoryA First-Class BoxStringBuilder TypeOptimization 1: &= Does In-Place AppendOptimization 2: Compiler Self-Assignment RewriteOptimization 3: Compile-Time Literal FoldingOptimization 4: Auto-Switching Runtime Concat StrategyJava Interop Nuance🚀 Headline: Pluggable ClassLoader Factory …
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Temporal Is to Your Code What a Database Is to Your Data
Table of Contents The pre-database era, replayedThe write-ahead log, but for your local variablesTransactions that span monthsThe same pattern, elsewhere in the stackWhat this means for your Java codeOnce upon a time, applications managed their own data files. Every program …
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“This Can’t Possibly Work”: What I Learned at a Temporal.io Workshop
Table of Contents The problem: we all became distributed systems developersDurable execution: crash-proof, not crash-preventingHow it actually works: history replay, not snapshotsThe moving partsSeeing is believingWhy this changes how you write softwareWhen developers first hear about Temporal, they tend to …
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Nulling Out References Won’t Help Your Garbage Collector
Table of Contents The collector doesn’t delete anythingMost objects die youngref = null is dead codeWhen ref = null can helpConclusionOne of the misconceptions that I continuously run into is that nulling out references in Java helps garbage collection. This …
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Jurassic JDK: Migrate or Extinct
Table of Contents Why Are We Still Here? 👀The Mistake Everyone Makes: The Big JumpStep 1: Read Your Codebase Before You Touch Anything 🔍Step 2: The Tools That Actually Help (and the Ones That Gaslight You)OpenRewrite ✅jdeprscan ✅Maven Enforcer Plugin …
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Quarkus Unpacked: Insights from the Foojay Podcast
Table of Contents What is Quarkus?How does Quarkus compare to Spring, Micronaut, or other frameworks?Is Quarkus more modern because it is newer?Does Quarkus replace the JVM?What is Quarkus live reload?How does build-time optimization work?How does this differ from JIT and …
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Your TLS Stack Is Lying to You About Zero-Copy
Table of Contents The “No Waste Compute” ConstraintThe Impedance Mismatch in Memory OwnershipThe Netty QuestionExplicit State and FFMWhat the Exploratory Benchmarks ProveThe GC Layer and the True Cost of AbstractionsWhere SSLEngine Still WinsWhat I Changed, and What I Gave UpThe …
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BoxLang v1.13.0: Compatibility, Concurrency, and Formatter Maturity
Table of Contents New FeaturesCharacter-Aware Trimming — trim(), ltrim(), rtrim()getClassMetadata() by Absolute PathSystemExecute() Environment ControlsThe BoxLang Formatter Goes Production-ReadyAsync & Concurrency HardeningMiniServer: Security & ReliabilityCompatibility WinsChangelog Highlights BoxLang 1.13.0 is a stability-first release with deep compatibility work and runtime hardening. …
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AWS Nitro and CPU Graviton Meets Unikernels
Table of Contents AWS Nitro and CPU Graviton Meets Unikernels: Java and Quarkus on ARM64 AWS Graviton with Nanos UnikernelJava and Jakarta EE Truly Meet UnikernelsFrom Virtual Machines and Containers to UnikernelsProof of Concept OverviewReproducibility and ArtifactsLocal Build and Image …
