Idempotent Spring Boot: Safe REST with One Annotation
An idempotent Spring Boot starter that replays duplicate requests instead of re-executing them. One annotation, Redis or JDBC, atomic …
Performance
Toward a Durable Spring PetClinic
What makes a process a good candidate for durability? To answer this, we'll take the canonical Spring PetClinic and interrogate its sources.
BoxLang 1.15.0 Released: Blazing Fast Strings, Runtime Portability, and much more
BoxLang 1.15.0 is a high-impact release with two big headlines and a long tail of hardening. The first headline is a massive performance …
Temporal Is to Your Code What a Database Is to Your Data
Your database made your data durable. Temporal does the same for your code.
"This Can't Possibly Work": What I Learned at a Temporal.io Workshop
When developers first hear about Temporal, they tend to move through a predictable sequence of emotions. First comes disbelief — the claim …
Nulling Out References Won't Help Your Garbage Collector
Learn how intricate and amazing the JVM is and how much cognitive load that it takes on so you rarely have to think about things that steal …
Jurassic JDK: Migrate or Extinct
65 million years ago, dinosaurs didn't adapt. They're gone. Your JDK 7 app is giving the same energy. 🫠 I spent a year and a half migrating …
Quarkus Unpacked: Insights from the Foojay Podcast
I recently had the pleasure of joining the Foojay podcast to talk about Quarkus in depth. The conversation covered a lot of ground, from …
Your TLS Stack Is Lying to You About Zero-Copy
In a zero-allocation runtime, SSLEngine becomes a structural mismatch. It keeps TLS on the heap-facing side of the JVM...
BoxLang v1.13.0: Compatibility, Concurrency, and Formatter Maturity
BoxLang 1.13.0 is a stability-first release with deep compatibility work and runtime hardening. This build closes 48 issues, with the …