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Last week Spring 6.1 and SpringBoot 3.2 were released and they both came with full support for CRaC (Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint). If you want to learn more about CRaC, feel free to read about it here. CRaC is an OpenJDK project that can “snapshot” a running JVM (Java Virtual Machine) and store its state, including your application, to disk. …

On November 9th, we had several interviews with the speakers and guests at the J-Fall conference in the Netherlands. Last week, in episode 33 of the Foojay Podcast, you could hear discussions about the evolution of Java towards the Cloud and sustainability. In this part, we will touch on various topics related to the developers’ lives. Video Report Podcast (audio …

JDK Flight Recorder (JFR) is one of the two prominent open-source profilers for the OpenJDK (besides async-profiler). It offers many features (see Profiling Talks) and the ability to observe lots of information by recording over one hundred different events. If you want to know more about the existing events, visit my JFR Event Collection website (related blog post): Besides these …

As desktop applications have kind of become a niche topic, it’s getting harder to find information about up-to-date best practices for desktop development. Since I have been doing this for many years now, I hope that I can share some of the lessons learned with other fellow desktop developers. Most items that are discussed here are taken straight from XPipe, …

Simon Ritter and Gerrit Grunwald answer a question that they hear repeatedly: “If I decide to stay with Oracle Java (rather than migrate to an OpenJDK distribution) what issues will I face?” https://youtu.be/rGiIm2xdp7w Sponsored Content State of Java Survey The Authoritative Java Study Conducted by the Only Vendor 100% Focused on Java Download (For Free) Here! The post Video: “If …

I got plenty of feedback on my post about Calling Rust from Python: Hacker News /r/python /r/rust Many comments mentioned pyo3, and I should use it instead of cooking my own. Thanks to the authors, I checked: in this post, I explain what it is and how I migrated my code. What is pyo3? Rust bindings for Python, including tools …

Build Server for Gradle In September, we shared that Microsoft and Gradle have joined forces to explore a novel approach to Gradle project import and building, based on the Build Server Protocol (BSP). The objective is address the existing Gradle issues on Visual Studio Code and improve support for Gradle projects. The Build Server for Gradle, developed in collaboration with Gradle, will delegate …

In this tutorial, we’ll look at exploring project structure with IntelliJ IDEA‘s Dependency Matrix. When working with large, complex software projects, we need to understand the dependencies between components in your projects. IntelliJ IDEA has a feature called Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM), or Dependency Matrix, that can help us with this. When you are new to a project, the Dependency …

A few months ago, we asked the J-Fall team if a Foojay Broadcast Room would be a good idea. And they said yes, so suddenly we found ourselves in the middle of the entrance of the Pathé cinema in Ede in the Netherlands, with a camera and microphones. During the day, we had a lot of exciting talks. There are …

In part1, part2, discussed, several design patterns were explored that aided in the development of microservices. This blog post will cover the subsequent design patterns. Observability Patterns Cross-cutting Concern Patterns Microservice Architecture Patterns Observability Patterns Undoubtedly, the logging mechanism benefits troubleshooting issues that arise when executing operations or transactions on multiple deployed microservices. We can further categorize the observability patterns …