Hugo Marques explains how to navigate Java concurrency at scale, moving beyond simple frameworks to solve high-throughput IO ...

The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.

Apache Kafka has become an essential component in modern data architectures, enabling real-time data streaming and processing at scale. At the heart of Kafka's publish-subscribe model lies the Kafka ...

Kafka Streams is a powerful client library that enables developers to build applications and microservices where both input and output data reside in Apache Kafka clusters. Unlike traditional stream ...

ABSTRACT: Microservices have revolutionized traditional software architecture. While monolithic designs continue to be common, particularly in legacy applications, there is a growing trend towards the ...

Generics make your code more flexible and easier to read, and they help you avoid ClassCastExceptions at runtime. Get started with this introduction to using generics with the Java Collections ...

HTMX is a newer technology that takes plain old HTML and gives it extra powers like Ajax and DOM swaps. It’s included in my personal list of good ideas because it eliminates a whole realm of ...

Introduced with the Java 17 release, pattern matching enhances the instanceof operator so Java developers can better check and object's type and extract its components, and more efficiently deal with ...