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First Test of Java on Banana Pi (ARM and RISC-V), Plus a Blinking LED with Pi4J

Author: Frank Delporte Original post on Foojay: Read More As part of my 2026 learning goals around Java on RISC-V (see this post about x86 versus ARM versus RISC-V), I’ve asked various suppliers to send me evaluation boards. I already published these: LattePanda IOTA (x86) OrangePi 5 Ultra (ARM) and OrangePi RV2 (RISC-V) VisionFive 2 Lite (RISC-V) BeagleBoards (ARM and …

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Toward a Durable Spring PetClinic

Author: Geertjan Wielenga Original post on Foojay: Read More Overview Durable Execution is a way of running code so that its progress survives failure. A normal program keeps its state in memory: if the process crashes, the machine reboots, or a network call times out halfway through a multi-step operation, that state is gone and the work is left half-done. …

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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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