As Java 8 features comes to Android, it is important to remember that every standard library API and language feature comes with an associated cost. Even as devices get faster and have more memory, concerns of code size and performance overhead are still very relevant.
We have heard all the buzzwords in the world of Java software development: SOA, Java EE, Java Web Profile, Eclipse MicroProfile, Microservices, etc. Java web applications have seen their fair share of technology re-branding. But honestly there hasn’t been much true re-architecting of Java web applications.
GraalVM project enhances the Java ecosystem with an integrated, polyglot, high-performance execution environment for Java, Scala, Kotlin, Groovy, and other JVM-based languages and also JavaScript, Ruby, R, and Python, and C/C++ too.
Reactive programming offers Java developers a way to build message-driven, elastic, resilient, and responsive services… yet many Java developers don’t know where to begin. The Reactive Streams initiative provides a baseline and Project Reactor provides a great way to become immediately productive, leveraging reactive capabilities from end to end. Whether …
Speed matters in software and Java programming. Not going fast just for the sake of it, but to learn quickly and deliver insight and capabilities that move you forward. How does event processing make this possible? What role does serverless technology play?
We all want to understand what our Java application is really doing in production, but this information is normally invisible to developers. Profilers tell you what code your application is running but few developers profile and mostly on their development environments. Thankfully production profiling is now a practical reality that …
