Written by Mark Sailes, Senior Serverless Solutions Architect, AWS. At AWS re:Invent 2022, AWS announced SnapStart for AWS Lambda functions running on Java Corretto 11. This feature enables customers to achieve up to 10x faster function startup performanc... (more…)
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The release cycle of Java has changed quite dramatically recently, meaning we're getting new features at a more rapid pace than earlier. If you still hadn't had the time to read up on what's been going on the last releases, look no further! (more…)
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Evolve the Java language so that students can write their first programs without needing to understand language features designed for large programs. Far from using a separate dialect of Java, these first programs utilize streamlined declarations for sing... (more…)
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In Java 24 security manager is being removed without any replacement, see https://openjdk.org/jeps/486. Because having no security manager would allow any groovy script, specifically any formula, t... (more…)
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Some programming languages like Java or Scala offer more than one way to express a concept of “lack of value”. Traditionally, a special null value is used to... (more…)
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