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The Java Story: A Film About All of Us

Author: Dominika Tasarz Original post on Foojay: Read More Every so often a story comes along that belongs to an entire community rather than any one company or person. The Java Story documentary by CultRepo is one of those. On July 17th at 7pm UTC, the official Java documentary premieres live on YouTube – if you’ve spent any significant part …

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What’s New in actions/setup-java 5.4 and 5.5: Signature Verification, Kona JDK, and a Better Maven Experience

Author: Bruno Borges Original post on Foojay: Read More What’s New in actions/setup-java 5.5.0 If you build Java on GitHub Actions, actions/setup-java is almost certainly the first step in your workflow. It installs a JDK, wires up JAVA_HOME and the PATH, configures Maven settings.xml, sets up dependency caching, and registers Maven toolchains — all before your build even starts. The …

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Why We Moved Our Timefold Java Worker Pods from AMD to ARM64

Author: Tom Cools Original post on Foojay: Read More When we investigated unexpected performance variance in our Timefold Solver worker pods on our platform, we traced it to hyperthreading on AMD (x86-64) cloud instances. Switching to ARM (ARM64), where each vCPU maps to a physical core, eliminated the problem and roughly doubled effective throughput per dollar for concurrent solver workloads. …

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