Chief Architect of the Java Platform Group at Oracle, Mark Reinhold, has written a call for discussion proposing a new project, Project Leyden, that will address the long-term pain points of Java’s slow startup time, slow time to peak performance, and large footprint. It will do this by introducing static images to the Java platform and JDK. Let’s take a closer look.

Our new webinar series Devs@Home brings IT experts into your (home) office. On Thursday, April 30th at 13:00 CEST, Thorben Janssen will show us how to use lesser known features of Hibernate to implement common features, such as generating UUIDs as primary keys, quickly.

Almost there – Garbage collection with the Z Garbage Collector is almost completely free of infamous safepoint operations. Stack processing is the only thing not really running in a concurrent phase yet. JEP 376 addresses exactly this problem and should finally put an end to unnecessary pauses. Let’s take a closer look.

Shenandoah has been part of the JDK since Java 12. When it was integrated, it was given experimental status similar to Epsilon GC and ZGC. JEP 379 proposes to change its status from experimental to production – and it will get its way, since JEP 379 is officially targeted to JDK 15. Let’s take a closer look.

In this interview, John Pocknell, Senior Market Strategist at Quest Software, covers the challenges and bottlenecks preventing data teams from success and explores what data-driven businesses need to keep in mind as data becomes more critical.

Women are underrepresented in the tech sector —myth or reality? Three years ago, we launched a diversity series aimed at bringing the most inspirational and powerful women in the tech scene to your attention. Today, we’d like you to meet Chloe Alpert, CEO and Co-founder of Medinas, Inc.

Our new DevOps Magazine is a great resource for all things DevOps. The first issue is all about continuous integration and continuous delivery. Interviews with a panel of seven CI/CD experts and articles on building a strong CI/CD pipeline are just the tip of the iceberg. There’s plenty more packed into this magazine that’s bursting with great content. Download it now for free!

Women are underrepresented in the tech sector —myth or reality? Three years ago, we launched a diversity series aimed at bringing the most inspirational and powerful women in the tech scene to your attention. Today, we’d like you to meet Dr. Laura La Manna, software engineer at TeamSystem.

We caught up with Julia Wester, 55 Degrees AB, at DevOpsCon Munich and spoke to her about turning binary thinking into better software development. Watch the interview to find out what she had to say.

Women are underrepresented in the tech sector —myth or reality? Three years ago, we launched a diversity series aimed at bringing the most inspirational and powerful women in the tech scene to your attention. Today, we’d like you to meet Catherine Tabor, Founder of Sparkfly.

Women are underrepresented in the tech sector —myth or reality? Three years ago, we launched a diversity series aimed at bringing the most inspirational and powerful women in the tech scene to your attention. Today, we’d like you to meet Gladys Kong, CEO of UberMedia.

With the release of Istio 1.5, the service mesh underwent a remarkable change from a collection of microservices to a single binary, or monolith. We got in touch with some of the Istio team and talked to Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM Lin Sun and IBM Distinguished Engineer Daniel Berg about the new update and what the future holds.

Z Garbage Collector has been part of the JDK since Java 11. Since then lots of new features and enhancements have been made to ZGC, resulting in a long time as an experimental feature. However, because no ZGC-specific bugs have been reported in months, JEP 377 proposes to change its status from experimental to production.

Working from home, social distancing and #StayAtHomeSaveLives. Why not use the time to help your offspring to take their first steps in the world of computer science? We’ve collected some resources on coding for kids so you can help learning become child’s play.