After paying an Uber for the first time, I decided to dig into the Marqeta API used for payment processing. In a matter of hours, I was able to create a fully functional Payment Service using Spring Boot and Java. For the last two years, I experienced the... (more…)

“Why can’t I just build an .EXE?“ When Java was first introduced, mainstream programming languages mostly either compiled to standalone executables (e.g. C/C++, COBOL), or else ran in an interpreter (e.g. Perl, Tcl). For many programmers, Java’s need for ... (more…)

When building an application based on real-time data streams, it’s fundamental to have a highly responsive system, that can handle the… (more…)

OpenTelemetry is an open source telemetry framework created through the merger of OpenTracing and OpenCensus. (more…)

PoC of running Doom on top of GraalVM. Contribute to stepstone-tech/doom-graalvm development by creating an account on GitHub. (more…)