Java Garbage Collection remains a topic of major interest even after 25 years. Many developers are still confused about the fundamentals of the topic, even of the most widely-used implementation (Parallel on Java 8). (more…)

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I love AWS Lambda. Removing the concept of a “server” from your application is huge. I won’t go into all the benefits of Lambda, but I can say from first han...

Three Dutch shipwrecks considered war graves vanish from the bottom of the Java Sea.

Concurrent applications, those serving multiple independent application actions simultaneously, are the bread and butter of Java server-side programming. The thread has been Java’s primary unit of concurrency since Java’s inception, and is a core construc... (more…)