Shrinking Java for the Edge: Streams on 400KB of RAM
Actually, I spent most of yesterday migrating a fleet of industrial temperature sensors to the new embedded Java profile.
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.
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.
Shipping Java 11 to iOS: Benchmarking Gluon’s New Cloud Pipeline
So there I was at 2 AM on a Tuesday, staring at a massive Xcode stack trace on my M3 Max running Sonoma 14.4. I was trying to figure out…
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.
Swift Optionals Are Great, Until They Aren’t
I have a love-hate relationship with nil . Don't get me wrong. Swift's type system is a lifesaver. I remember the bad old days of Objective-C, sending.
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.