Cristobal Escobar
355 viewsBoxLang AWS, Azure, and Google Secrets Manager Module Released
Every production application carries secrets: database passwords, API tokens, encryption keys. The question is never whether to manage them …
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Every article on foojay.io, newest first: OpenJDK, the JVM, Java tooling and the ecosystem around them, written by the Java community.
Cristobal Escobar
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Frank Delporte
626 viewsFirst Test of Java on Banana Pi (ARM and RISC-V), Plus a Blinking LED with Pi4J
As part of my 2026 learning goals around Java on RISC-V (see this post about x86 versus ARM versus RISC-V), I've asked various suppliers to …
Geertjan Wielenga
807 viewsToward 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.
Shai Almog
711 viewsHow We Beat HotSpot Performance (By Cheating, But Not Like That)
ParparVM went from 4.21x slower than warmed Java 25 to geomean parity, with six of ten benchmarks at or below HotSpot and peak memory below …
725 viewsWarm Up Fast, Run Lean: Vertical Scaling for Java on Kubernetes with Azul Prime and Kedify
Autoscaling on Kubernetes has evolved significantly, but many production systems still rely on reactive scaling based on CPU and memory …
Felipe Maschio
1,347 viewsYour Loom App Quietly Became a Thread Pool Again: A Field Guide to Virtual Thread Pinning
The incident that taught me to respect pinning looked like nothing. A service freshly migrated to virtual threads, a load test that …
Cristobal Escobar
483 viewsBoxLang 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 …
Bruno Borges
1,066 viewsI Asked GitHub Copilot to Profile a Java App. It Found a Bug in My Heap Sizing, and Offered to Fix It
I built an extension to collapse the entire loop of running and measuring the performance of Java workloads, so it can be used within a …
600 viewsFoojay Podcast #100: Java Podcasters on Why They Started, What Broke, and What They Learned
Foojay Podcast hits episode 100. No plan, no roadmap. It just happened. To mark the occasion, Frank turned the microphone around and invited …
Geertjan Wielenga
1,089 viewsTemporal Is to Your Code What a Database Is to Your Data
Your database made your data durable. Temporal does the same for your code.