Most developers suck. I think everyone can acknowledge there is a significant portion of the developer community in any language (but particularly Java) that just doesn’t know how to write good code.

We know that variables are used to store data in a Java program. We also know that each variable can store not more than one data item. So, what do we do if we need to store a large number of data items, say 50. Well, we can use 50 variables, one for each... (more…)

Every Java developer sooner or later has the exact same problem. They wish they could see beyond their public API. (more…)

Azul has launched a cloud-native compiler, improving the time to peak performance for Java applications. By delegating JIT to an external system, applications can reach higher throughput, faster than when JIT is performed locally. (more…)

Data is laid out in memory as closely as possible on an integer array. Map and Doubly Linked List are not two different data structures anymore. A custom map implementation allows built-in doubly linked list functionality on key-value and left-right data ... (more…)