Java 20, Liberica, and Why I’m Obsessed with Tiny Containers Again
I spent most of Tuesday fighting with a Docker image that refused to shrink below 400MB. You know the feeling.
Java 25: Why I’m Finally Ditching My Old Boilerplate
The LTS Upgrade That Actually Matters I usually dread the "new Java" notifications. You know the drill—I see the announcement, I read the JEPs, and then I.
Java Low-Code: Why I Finally Surrendered to the Visual Backend
I used to be a purist. You know the type. If it wasn't written in IntelliJ with strict type checking and a pom.xml file I configured myself, it wasn't.
Jakarta EE in 2026: The Boring Stability We Desperately Needed
I spent the better part of last week migrating a legacy monolith to a microservices architecture. You know the drill.
It’s 2026: JDK 24 RC1 is Here and Your Java 8 Code Looks Ancient
I still see it. I see it in production logs, I see it in Stack Overflow questions, and I see it in job descriptions that should know better. Java 8.