Author: Adam Warski Original post on Foojay: Read More Virtual Threads deliver a fast, cheap (in terms of memory & switching speed) threading solution for the JVM. They promise the return of a direct-style, synchronous programming model. But is that enough to challenge the status quo regarding data streaming? Can we have the best of both worlds: the simplicity that …

Author: Simon Ritter Original post on Foojay: Read More Table of Contents Six new features you want to know about JEP 483: Ahead-of-time class loading and linking JEP 485: Stream gatherers JEP 486: Permanently disable the security manager JEP 491: Synchronize virtual threads without pinning JEP 498: Warn Upon Use of memory-access methods in sun.misc.Unsafe JEP 501: Deprecate the 32-bit …

Author: Jennifer Reif Original post on Foojay: Read More In this episode, I continue my journey with vector databases, integrating Pinecone, Neo4J , and Spring AI. While making some progress, I also encountered hurdles, such as evolving APIs and the unique architecture of vector stores. Next, I share insights from an article on contributing to open-source source projects, how it …