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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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Your Loom App Quietly Became a Thread Pool Again: A Field Guide to Virtual Thread Pinning

Author: Felipe Maschio Original post on Foojay: Read More The incident that taught me to respect pinning looked like nothing. A service freshly migrated to virtual threads, a load test that plateaued at about 420 requests per second no matter how much traffic we threw at it, CPU sitting at 9%, zero errors, zero warnings, nothing in the logs. The …

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