Java is a safe programming language and prevents programmer from doing a lot of stupid mistakes, most of which based on memory management. But, there is a way to do such mistakes intentionally, using Unsafe class.

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…)

Amazon runs thousands of Java production services; both we and our customers depend heavily on  various distributions of the JDK (Java Development Kit). In 2016 we started building Amazon Corretto, our OpenJDK binary distribution, and started using it to ... (more…)

Writing software is hard. Writing good software is harder. Writing good, simple software is the hardest. Writing good, simple software as a team is the hardest… est. (more…)

A failure to sanity check signatures for division-by-zero flaws makes forgeries easy. (more…)