In this podcast Ron Pressler, technical lead for Project Loom at Oracle, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Charles Humble to discuss the project and its forerunner Quasar. Topics include the differences between concurrency and parallelism; what virtual... (more…)

This whole Java SE bullshido that Oracle is all up on their high horse about has made me think about why I really enjoy Forth. I’d like to lay down some of my thoughts before I forget them, because I think it’s worth preserving and discussing.

TestContainers make integration tests in Java easy. You get fully isolated, repeatable environments with normal JUnit tests using @Rules to set up docker.. (more…)

The idea behind the jextract tool is to mechanically generate a set of interfaces from a C header file. Together, these interfaces can be thought of as Java bindings for the native library whose headers has been processed by jextract. These interfaces are... (more…)

Paul Bakker, Java Platform at Netflix, Java Champion, and Co-Author of "Java 9 Modularity," presented How Netflix Really Uses Java at the 2023 QCon San Francisco conference. Bakker described the evolution of the architecture behind their movie application... (more…)