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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)