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Pixie, the missing developer observability tool!

Needless to say how important monitoring and observability is, especially in a cloud native, distributed world! No system should got to production without having monitoring tools in place. On the other hand, the devops movement and cloud native era introduced a plethora of tools to run, deploy and monitor our

What the CRaC ?!

If you've been following the news lately in the Java ecosystem (aside from Java 28th anniversary), you should've heard of CRaC. Two big announcements were revealed this week: * Azul announced earlier this week the general availability of and commercial support for Azul Zulu Builds of OpenJDK for Java 17 including

My home office setup!

Hello dear reader 👋 Let me set come context some context first before diving into how I set up my home office.  I am a software engineer, a meticulous one you can say! I am sharing my own setup because many friends asked me to do so (and I truly thank

Building Native Covid19 Tracker CLI using Java, PicoCLI & GraalVM

When it comes to building CLI apps, Java is not your first ( not even among the top 3) choice that comes to mind. However, one of the amazing things about java is its ecosystem and vibrant community, which means that you can find some tools/libraries for (nearly) everything. Golang

Java 14 features: Text Blocks & Foreign-Memory Access API

This is the fourth and last post in the blog post series I wrote covering the features that has been added to java 14, released just a couple of days back. Java 14 / JDK 14: General Availability: https://t.co/THxJ9llBpj #jdk14 #java14 #openjdk #java — Mark Reinhold (@mreinhold) March 17,

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