If you maybe-kinda-sorta have a idea of what a Future is in Java, and want a concise post with a functional “Hello world” example of code… (more…)

I am sitting in my study, it’s dark and completely silent, I am in the creative flow, typing away the last lines of code for my new… (more…)

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…)

Every now and then I get my hands on a Java project that requires to talk to a database. Depending on who of my team mates I'm talking to, database experts or Java developers, there exist different views on how to model and access data. In my early days a... (more…)

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