The JVM’s garbage collectors make use of Thread-Local Allocation Buffers (TLABs) to improve allocation performance. In this article we’re going to understand what TLABs are, how they affect the code generated by the JIT for allocation and what the resulti... (more…)

Ben Evans revisits his take on Java's Missing Features from 2015 and compares how the language has evolved since then compared to his observations from the time. (more…)

librec - LibRec: A Java Library for Recommender Systems, see... (more…)

Java 9 brings more than just modules: better performance, less momory consumption, G1 as the default GC, HTML5 Javadoc ... a lot goes on inside Java 9. (more…)

Circular buffer library designed for ultra-low-latency Java applications - JVM-RingBuffer/RingBuffer... (more…)