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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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BoxLang 1.15.0 Released: Blazing Fast Strings, Runtime Portability, and much more

Author: Cristobal Escobar Original post on Foojay: Read More BoxLang 1.15.0 is a high-impact release with two big headlines and a long tail of hardening. The first headline is a massive performance upgrade to string handling: a new first-class BoxStringBuilder type, compile-time literal folding, smarter &= semantics, and a runtime concat strategy that automatically switches to builder-backed accumulation once your …

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I Asked GitHub Copilot to Profile a Java App. It Found a Bug in My Heap Sizing, and Offered to Fix It

Author: Bruno Borges Original post on Foojay: Read More I built an extension to collapse the entire loop of running and measuring the performance of Java workloads, so it can be used within a place some developers are starting to consider their new “development environment” in the agentic AI era: the GitHub Copilot app. The idea: Copilot-driven profiling This extension …

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