How time flies! Even in these extraordinary times, it seems hard to believe another six months have passed, and we now have a new release of the JDK. As usual,…
Happy New Year, everyone! For the last few years, I’ve written a blog post at the start of each year with my predictions for what will happen in the following…
Part 1 of the Java Performance series discussed why Low Latency is Critical and its effect on application performance. In that article, the relationship between latency and application performance is…
Measuring the popularity of programming languages is never going to be simple. We often see the results of surveys that have been conducted by various companies or organisations that seem…
A lot has changed since Java and the JVM were created in the mid-1990s. The invention of Java solved an important problem that caused developers to spend enormous time coping…
In the world of High-Frequency Trading, automated applications process hundreds of millions of market signals every day and send back thousands of orders on various exchanges around the globe. In…
How quickly six months pass. It only seems like yesterday we were talking about JDK 14, records, pattern matching for instanceof and helpful NullPointerExceptions, yet here we are with JDK…
We commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a study describing how innovative technology companies utilized Azul Zing to reduce hardware expenses, increase the performance and scalability of JVM applications, and reduce…
Java has a fairly long history, which is well-documented in Simon Ritter’s article A Quarter of a Century of Java. While Java’s history hasn’t the time span of languages like…
A little over a year ago, in April 2019, the way most Java users accessed updates for the JDK changed. The reason for this was a combination of changes made…
Advantages of Microservices Architecture Software development is always changing and, today, we see a clear shift to the use of a microservices architecture. There are a number of clear advantages…
As Java turned 25 in May 2020, it was going through changes which had nothing to do with the pandemic but everything to do with Oracle. Until 2019, Oracle allowed…
