It’s been another half year of content and activities in and around the place for friends of OpenJDK… let’s look at some statistics, trends, comparisons, highlights, and plans for the future! Trends and Comparisons Let’s start by looking at Google Analytics, what’s the curve look like for the past half year? Here it is: Over the past 6 months, from …

Say you have a new code base to study or picked up an open source project. You might be a seasoned developer for whom this is another project in a packed resume. Alternatively, you might be a junior engineer for whom this is the first “real” project. It doesn’t matter! With completely new source code repositories, we still know nothing… …

In this fourth part we go deeper into the Serialisation engine that is within MicroStream to store the Object graph in a binary format. In the previous articles (part 1, part 2 and part 3), we have already mentioned that MicroStream stores Java instances in storage in a binary way with a new, from the ground up created, serialisation framework. In …