Welcome back to my series on ebpf. In the last article, we learned how to use ring buffers with libbpf for efficient communication. This week, we’re looking into the memory layout and alignment of structs transferred between the kernel and user-land. Alignment is essential; it specifies how the compiler layouts the structs and variables and where to put the data …

Lately, for my Generative AI powered Java apps, I’ve used the Gemini multimodal large language model from Google. But there’s also Gemma, its little sister model. Gemma is a family of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models built from the same research and technology used to create the Gemini models. Gemma is available in two sizes: 2B and 7B. Its weights are …

See how you can use Liberty Tools for IntelliJ IDEA to enable rapid, easy, and efficient development of cloud-native Java applications with Open Liberty and WebSphere Liberty When it comes to integrated development environments, within the Java community, IntelliJ IDEA is the most popular IDE amongst professional developers. It is the preferred IDE of choice by two-fifths of developers, making …