Weekly Update #1

Manifold, Spring Boot 3 -> graphql, GC Deep Dive

Time to blow your JVMind

Manifold is the New Lombok

Watch Josh Long give a quick over view of the Manifold project . Such as Tuple support

var t = (name: "Bob", age: "35");
System.out.println("Name: " + t.name + " Age: " + t.age);

var t = (person.name, person.age);
System.out.println("Name: " + t.name + " Age: " + t.age);

Spring 3 in Action

Continue binging on Josh Long and join along as he rewrites an application in Spring boot 3. This episode showcases the new actuator and some more GraphQl plugins

The Garbageman Can

Watch Billy Korando go very deep on the new garbage collector for Java 15. ZGC is a powerful garbage collector that provides low-latency and scalable garbage collection for large Java applications, making it an attractive option for modern cloud-based applications with high performance requirements.

Can Java keep up

Enjoy a little reddit drama with this thread on startups and Java use. Here are some gems:

Java sounds boring.

Amateurs don't like Java.

Since we started to use Java 17 in Quarkus/Micronaut, the game is different, this is new Java. Mostly service driven, with a schema-less DB our prototypes fly and are blazing fast.

JDK Thread Leak Thriller

In this crime drama by Gunnar Morling, a group of dedicated software engineers use their technical skills to track down a mysterious and elusive culprit: the thread leak. Armed with the latest tools and technologies, they dive deep into the data, analyzing thread creation and termination events to identify patterns and anomalies that may be causing performance issues in their Java application.

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