Reading a blog post about what’s coming up in JDK 16 recently, I learned that one of the new features is support for Unix domain sockets (JEP 380). Before Java 16, you’d have to resort to 3rd party libraries like jnr-unixsocket in order to use them. If y... (more…)

So recently I published an article titled “Microservices in Java? Never.” And it seriously split the camps. Java developers who were… (more…)

This week I had to work on a performance issue. Performance issues are always fun to work with. They give an opportunity to get into the depth of the technology we are using. We learn how much we d… (more…)

The release cycle of Java has changed quite dramatically recently, meaning we're getting new features at a more rapid pace than earlier. If you still hadn't had the time to read up on what's been going on the last releases, look no further! (more…)

It looks like Java EE may finally be fully free. In a blog post on the venerable Aquarium blog (started by the Glassfish team at Sun a decade or so ago) Oracle has announced that it has selected th… (more…)