Dan Heidinga discusses how to start a Java application faster, and how Graal Substrate VM, Quarkus, Project Leyden, and others can help with that. (more…)

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…)

A few years ago, when NoSQL was trending, like every other team, our team was also enthusiastic about the new and exciting stuff; we were planning to change the database in one of the applications… (more…)

This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. (more…)

Enhance the Java programming language with records, which are classes that act as transparent carriers for immutable data. Records can be thought of as nominal tuples. (more…)