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Toward a Durable Spring PetClinic

Author: Geertjan Wielenga Original post on Foojay: Read More Overview Durable Execution is a way of running code so that its progress survives failure. A normal program keeps its state in memory: if the process crashes, the machine reboots, or a network call times out halfway through a multi-step operation, that state is gone and the work is left half-done. …

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How We Beat HotSpot Performance (By Cheating, But Not Like That)

Author: Shai Almog Original post on Foojay: Read More No, we didn’t cheat in the benchmark. At least I hope we didn’t. Every optimization in this story was gated on bit identical output checksums against HotSpot, and the harness refuses to print a ratio when a checksum differs. If anything, this post is about how good HotSpot actually is. We …

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Warm Up Fast, Run Lean: Vertical Scaling for Java on Kubernetes with Azul Prime and Kedify

Author: Jiří Holuša Original post on Foojay: Read More Autoscaling on Kubernetes has evolved significantly, but many production systems still rely on reactive scaling based on CPU and memory utilization. The issue is that resource metrics often lag behind real demand. By the time the CPU rises, users may already be experiencing unacceptable latency.  For most real services, horizontal scaling should be driven …

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