Unix has been around for more than 50 years, and the original design principles must be good enough for it (and its derivative, Linux) to be the most widely used Operating System on the planet – 80% of servers, most supercomputers, and the most deployed OS (Android). It is also the most popular OS on Mars! Much of Unix’s success can be attributed …

1. Introduction In our previous article, we looked at augmenting our dashboard to store and display individual events from the Avengers using DataStax Astra, a serverless DBaaS powered by Apache Cassandra using Stargate to offer additional APIs for working with it. In this article, we will be making use of the exact same data in a different way. We are going to allow the user to select …

Context When Java 17 was released, we (the platform team at Auto Trader where I was working at the time) were fairly quick to provide a new Docker base image to allow our developers to gain the benefits of the new goodness in the JDK available since Java 11, the previous LTS version. Over the course of a few years, we’ve …