The new Java is here! Mark Reinhold, the chief architect of Java at Oracle, has just proposed the list of the 5 main elements of the JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP) that should be embedded in Java 14. (more…)

In addition to the functional aspect of logging, logs are also critical from a Java security perspective. When a security breach occurs, your log files are... (more…)

Many developers were burned by the overly complex world of Java back in the early 2000s. The Gang of Four patterns and middleware / J2EE / Java EE led to ridiculous levels of alleged decoupling as is evident in this sequence diagram from an open source J... (more…)

After paying an Uber for the first time, I decided to dig into the Marqeta API used for payment processing. In a matter of hours, I was able to create a fully functional Payment Service using Spring Boot and Java. For the last two years, I experienced the... (more…)

Aleksey Shipilёv, JVM/Performance Geek, Shout out at Twitter: @shipilev Questions, comments, suggestions: aleksey@shipilev.net... (more…)