Welcome to JCON EUROPE (May 13 – 16, 2024) – a conference and unique platform to come together with Java developers from all over the world to network, learn from each other and develop your personal skills. At JCON EUROPE, we create room for complex topics to unfold. Literally, hosted in a multiplex movie theater, Java code, concepts and programming …

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 …

Last September 2023 a new version of Java was released as the latest LTS (Long Time Support). This 21st version brought lots of new features that will improve performance and clarity in our code base. But taking advantage of these changes and new features, which we are not used to including in our code, can be a tough task. Also, …