This week's Java roundup for March 18th, 2024, features news highlighting: the GA release of JDK 22, GraalVM for JDK 22, the proposed release schedule for JDK 23, JDK Mission Control 9.0, BellSoft Liberica JDK and Azul Zulu for JDK 22. By Michael Redlich ..read more

This week's Java roundup for March 11th, 2024, features news highlighting: new JEP drafts, Stream Gatherers (Second Preview) and Hot Code Heap; Infinispan 15; the March 2024 edition of Payara Platform; Alpaquita Containers with CRaC; the first release candidate of JobRunr 7.0; and milestone and point releases for Spring projects, Quarkus, Helidon and Micronaut. By Michael Redlich ..read more

Uber replaced a legacy architecture built using the WAMP protocol with a new solution that takes advantage of GraphQL subscriptions. The main drivers for creating a new architecture were challenges around reliability, scalability, observability/debugibility, as well as technical debt impeding the team’s ability to maintain the existing solution. By Rafal Gancarz ..read more

The team in Booking.com’s fintech business unit implemented a series of improvements across the backend and the frontend of its platform and was able to double the delivery performance, as measured by DORA metrics. Additionally, the Micro Frontends (MFE) pattern was used to break up the monolithic FE application into multiple decomposed apps that could be deployed separately. By Rafal Gancarz ..read more

This week's Java roundup for February 19th, 2024 features news highlighting: JDK 22 in release candidate 2, the February 2024 edition of the Payara Platform, numerous milestone and point releases in the Spring ecosystem, multiple releases of Apache Tomcat and Log4j and Gradle 8.7-RC1. By Michael Redlich ..read more

One week after announcing Gemini 1.0 Ultra, Google announced additional details about its next generation model, Gemini 1.5. The new iteration comes with an expansion of its context window and the adoption of a "Mixture of Experts" (MoE) architecture, promising to make the AI both faster and more efficient. The new model also includes expanded multimodal capabilities. By Andrew Hoblitzell ..read more

DoorDash created a configuration management platform to help its logistics team maintain the growing number of business preferences and configuration values. The company used CockroachDB for persistence and simplified the architecture compared with the previous solution. The new platform enables experimentation, improves configuration value lifecycle, and provides flexibility and extendibility. By Rafal Gancarz ..read more

This week's Java roundup for February 5th, 2024 features news highlighting: the first release candidate of JDK 22, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0, IBM Semeru Runtimes first quarter 2024 updates, LangChain4j 0.27.0, and multiple point releases for Micronaut, Helidon and Eclipse Vert.x. By Michael Redlich ..read more

Pinterest open-sourced its generic PubSub client library, PSC, which has been heavily used in production for a year and a half. The library helped the engineering teams by increasing developer velocity, and the scalability and stability of services using it. Over 90% of Java applications have migrated to PSC with minimal changes. By Rafal Gancarz ..read more

Uber created a new load-shedding library for its microservice platform, serving over 130 million customers and handling aggregated peaks of millions of requests per second (RPSs). The company replaced the solution based on QALM with Cinnamon library, which, in addition to graceful degradation, can dynamically and continuously adjust the capacity of the service and the amount of load shedding. By Rafal Gancarz ..read more