Java EE has been a dominant force behind all enterprise development in Java. Lately, it was renamed to Jakarta EE, while transitioning to the Eclipse Foundation. This transition opened the door to open governance, open compatibility testing (the earlier Technology Compatibility Kit was closed source), and of course, open-source contributions. That means no specific vendor has more influence than any …

If you’ve more than a couple of years of experience in IT, you probably have stumbled upon the following quote: There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things. — Phil Karlton Then, because it’s such a great quote, it evolved: However, I think that the initial quote is misleading. A lot of things are …

A couple of weeks ago, we had a great time hosting the workshop you can see below with Vlad Mihalcea. It was loads of fun and we hope to do this again soon! In this workshop, we focused on Spring Boot performance but most importantly on Hibernate performance, which is a common issue in production environments. It’s especially hard to …