Testcontainers vs zonky embedded Postgres: integration test latency on GitHub Actions
If your CI bill is dominated by Docker pulls and your @DataJpaTest classes each create their own database, the choice between Testcontainers and zonky's.
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…
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.
Azul Zulu’s CRaC Support Finally Fixed My Cold Start Nightmare
I spent last weekend staring at Datadog dashboards, watching our Java microservices take their sweet, agonizing 14 seconds to spin up during a sudden.
Fixing Java’s Dependency Mess Before It Breaks Again
Actually, I should clarify - another Friday night ruined. Well, that's not entirely accurate. I spent three hours last weekend trying to figure out why a.
Gradle 9.2: Isolated Projects Just Broke My Build (And I Love It)
Well, I have to admit, I've had a love-hate relationship with Gradle. Mostly hate, if I'm being honest. But last Tuesday, I decided to bump our main.
Stop Writing Bash, Start Using JBang (It’s 2026, People)
Well, that's not entirely accurate - for years, despite being a "Java guy," I actually wrote all my utility scripts in Python or Bash .
Tomcat’s Base64 RCE: Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
Actually, I spent my Friday night patching three different legacy clusters because apparently, we haven't learned our lesson about HTTP verbs yet.
Java Virtual Threads: A Production Reality Check
Well, I've been running them in production on our payment processing service for the last six months. And honestly? It's mostly great. Mostly.
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.