Production Horrors - Handling Disasters: Public Debrief. Handling failures
Just in time for Halloween failures in production are scarier than most movie monsters. Here's a personal scary story of a production …
Friends Of OpenJDK Today
Every article on foojay.io, newest first: OpenJDK, the JVM, Java tooling and the ecosystem around them, written by the Java community.
Announcement: JReleaser 0.8.0 Released!
JReleaser streamlines creating releases for [Java] projects, creates GitHub/GitLab/Gitea releases, while packaging binaries for Homebrew, …
Kotlin and FaaS: An Impossible Union?
I'd like to first explain why the JVM platform is a bad idea for FaaS. Then, I'll proceed to propose alternatives to use Kotlin nonetheless.
Java Thread Programming (Part 5)
When a thread acquires a lock object, no other thread will be able to use it. Once a thread unlocks the lock, other threads acquire it …
VS Code Java September 2021 Update
Covering the new release of Gradle extension, more convenient Code Actions and the recent 1.0 language server release!
Understanding Apache Maven (Part 6): POM Reference
Not meant as a full dissection of the Apache Maven pom.xml, this article will go through some of its common portions.
SKP's Agile Cheatsheet: Part 01 | On Foojay.io Today
SKP's Agile Cheatsheet listing the most important terms in agile, devops, scrum, lean, kanban, and more.
Lights, Camera, Action: GitHub Actions with Java (Part 1)
Learn how to create a GitHub Action job that will build and test a Java-based project using Maven or Gradle.
Exception Chaos Java Code Quiz
Working correctly with exceptions is crucial to a high-quality application that users enjoy using. This quiz reinforces some of the basics.
Debugging Tutorial 1 – Introduction: Conditional Breakpoints & Set Value
Debug conditional breakpoints, setValue, and more, for VSCode, IntelliJ/IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm, Java, JavaScript (NodeJS), Kotlin & Python.