Many developers were burned by the overly complex world of Java back in the early 2000s. The Gang of Four patterns and middleware / J2EE / Java EE led to ridiculous levels of alleged decoupling as is evident in this sequence diagram from an open source J... (more…)

For custom-built applications, using a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution is an excellent option. With a PaaS, developers simply focus on writing code and pushing an app. It removes the complexi… (more…)

Streaming APIs allow for big data processing of native data structures by providing MapReduce-like operations over these structures. However, unlike traditional big data systems, these data structures typically reside in shared memory accessed by multiple... (more…)

TlDR: Concurrency and pre-fetching gives zio-kafka a higher consumer throughput than the default java Kafka client for most workloads. Z... (more…)

After 25 years, it’s time for Java to get a Collections upgrade. (more…)