This paper is an experience report on migrating an American newspaper company's business-critical IBM mainframe application to Linux servers by automatically translating the application's source code from COBOL to Java and converting the mainframe data st... (more…)

A few weeks ago I faced an interesting problem trying to analyze a memory consumption in my Java application (Spring Boot + Infinispan) running under Docker. The Xmx parameter was set to 256m, but the Docker monitoring tool displayed almost two...

Welcome back to the July update of Java on Visual Studio Code. It has been a busy month for us. We worked on a couple of important features and improvements. Now, it is time to uncover. On to the update. Getting started experience We have been hearing fro... (more…)

Written by Mark Sailes, Senior Serverless Solutions Architect, AWS. At AWS re:Invent 2022, AWS announced SnapStart for AWS Lambda functions running on Java Corretto 11. This feature enables customers to achieve up to 10x faster function startup performanc... (more…)

When programming in C, one has to allocate and de-allocate memory by hand. It is an error prone process. In contrast, newer languages like Java often manage their memory automatically. Java relies on garbage collection. In effect, memory is allocated as n... (more…)