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The February Hibernate milestones actually fix things
I have a confession - I used to hate ORM upgrades. They usually break something obscure in a criteria query I wrote four years ago.
Testing the Latest Quarkus and Hibernate Reactive Drops
I spent three hours yesterday tracing a dropped database connection in a reactive pipeline. The stack trace was completely useless, pointing to a thread.
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.
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.
The State of Modern Java: Jakarta EE 11, JDK 23, and Ecosystem Evolution
Introduction: The Renaissance of the Java Ecosystem The landscape of enterprise software development is undergoing a significant transformation.
Mastering Integration Testing in Spring Boot with JUnit 5 and Testcontainers
The Modern Java Developer's Guide to Bulletproof Integration Testing In the world of modern Java development, particularly within microservices and.
The Modern Java Data Layer: Unlocking Scalability with Database Proxies and Distributed SQL
The Java ecosystem is in a constant state of evolution. As applications have transitioned from monolithic architectures to distributed microservices, the.
The Reactive Revolution: A Deep Dive into the Latest Reactive Java News and Trends
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The Future is Now: How Oracle’s Latest Java Innovations are Revolutionizing Database-Driven Applications
The Java ecosystem is in a state of perpetual motion, evolving at a pace that is both exhilarating and demanding.