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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…
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.
Gradle Tooling Finally Stopped Crashing My IDE
So there I was last Tuesday, staring at the "Gradle: Syncing..." spinner for the fourth time before 9 AM. My M2 MacBook Pro sounded like it was preparing.
The Unlikely Return of Micro Java for CLI Apps
I read another comment thread yesterday where someone confidently claimed Java is too bloated for CLI tools or edge devices. Learn about Java ME news.
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.
Java’s Static Keyword Just Cost Me Three Hours
Well, I have to admit, I was wrong about that Java 25.0.2 upgrade causing our memory issues. Actually, let me back up — the real culprit was a single.
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 Concurrency in 2026: The “Go Envy” is Finally Gone
Actually, I distinctly remember sitting in that conference room in 2019, watching my colleague demo a high-throughput service written in Go.