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Azul Zulu Prime 24.03 CRaC SIGILL on Graviton Cross-Gen Restore
As of: March 22, 2026 — Azul Zulu Prime 24.03 Quick nav Why does the SIGILL only fire after a CRaC restore? What does the crash look like in a…
Spring AI 1.1 Broke My Ollama Integration After the Upgrade
The first sign something was wrong with the Spring AI 1.1 upgrade was a NoSuchBeanDefinitionException for OllamaChatClient at startup, followed by a flood.
Java Virtual Threads: Where They Help and Where They Quietly Make Things Worse
Java 21 made virtual threads a permanent language feature, ending a multi-year preview cycle and giving the JVM its first real answer to high-concurrency.
Maven vs Gradle for Spring Boot: The Ultimate Performance Guide
I still remember the day my team hit a wall with our CI pipeline. We were maintaining a massive Spring Boot monolith—over 80 modules, half a million lines.