Java 9 comes with a rich feature set. Although there are no new language concepts, new APIs and diagnostic commands will definitely be interesting to developers. In this write up we’re going to have quick, high level look at some of the new features; Mod... (more…)

In the past weeks there has been a heated debate around the imminent release of Java 9 and its most famous feature: the Java platform modu... (more…)

There has been an ever growing number of teams looking to re-architect their monolithic systems into a series of single-responsibility… (more…)

Investigating concurrency, cache contention, and coherence issues on the JVM using JOL and the new @Contended annotation in Java 8. (more…)

Java virtual machines (JVM) use built-in garbage collection (GC) technology to automatically manage memory usage within the Java heap. When an allocation failure occurs, a GC cycle is triggered to reclaim memory from objects that are no longer referenced.... (more…)