In January 2022, the online game Wordle soared in popularity. It’s a word-guessing game where you guess a five-letter word and are told for each guess whether a letter is in the right place i… (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…)

I’ve previously looked at the likes of Spring Boot and how comparatively bloated it could be considered for simple microservices. One of… (more…)

Compared to other choices, Java is not that convenient for creating simple command-line driven apps - largely due to the need to distribute a sizable runtime. The combination of GraalVM and Picocli aims to change that, by providing native compilation alon... (more…)

When it comes to developing low latency software systems, the received wisdom is that you would be crazy to use anything but C++ because anything else has too high a latency. But I’m here to convince you of the opposite, counter-intuitive, almost heretica... (more…)