IntelliJ IDEA 2017.1 is available for download! In addition to many important bug fixes, this massive update brings lots of improvements to supported languages, frameworks, and built-in tools. (more…)

GraalVM Native Image is an ahead-of-time compiler that generates native Java executables. These executables start very fast and use less CPU and memory. This makes Java in the cloud cheaper. GraalVM can even achieve peak throughput on par with the JVM. Ma... (more…)

I keep encountering situations where RDBMS users think that one second for query execution is anything near fast. Most recently, in this Stack Overflow question: Hibernate SQL In clause making CPU … (more…)

Java 9 introduces unified logging, a central mechanism configurable with -Xlog to observe class loading, threading, garbage collector, module system, etc. (more…)

Java performance optimization is of interest to developers and IT specialists alike. In a series of articles we will help you understand many of the performance-critical components that make up the IBM SDK for Java, and provide you with the high level bac...