The accepted wisdom has it that if you're building a high speed trading system you probably want to use C++ instead of Java: it's closer to the metal and is therefore faster (lower latency). However, some leading figures in the industry beg to disagree. ... (more…)

The enterprise Java framework was first released in 1999. It has undergone a great number of improvements over the last decades, but the learning curve is still very steep. So in this article, we're going to take an in-depth look at version 8 of the Java ... (more…)

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…)

On a recent episode of Azure Cosmos DB Live TV, I discussed building Java apps with Azure Cosmos DB and Spring Cloud. The focus of the discussion was how to use Spring Cloud Azure, an open-source project that provides seamless Spring integration with Azur... (more…)

Welcome to the update of Java on Visual Studio Code for October. In this update, we will introduce some ‘small’ new things that you would love. VS Code is not only about features, UIs and extensions, and it’s also about communities and users. (more…)