1. Spring and Java

>> Helidon Níma — Helidon on Virtual Threads [medium.com]

Helidon meets Loom a concurrency model to handle HTTP requests using cheap virtual threads.

>> Java is Very Fast, If You Don’t Create Many Objects [blog.vanillajava.blog]

Avoiding object allocations and GC pauses while passing 4 billion events/seconds over TCP. Let’s see how’s that even possible.

>> JEP 429: Extent-Local Variables to Promote Immutability in Java [infoq.com]

And a lightweight approach to share immutable data between threads using Extent Local variables. Good stuff.

Also worth reading:

Webinars and presentations:

Time to upgrade:

2. Technical & Musings

>> A beginner’s guide to YugabyteDB [vladmihalcea.com]

Meet YugabyteDB: a PostgreSQL compatible, open-source, and distributed SQL database.

Also worth reading:

3. Comics

And my favorite Dilberts of the week:

>> Exceeding Expectations [dilbert.com]

>> One Last Reframe [dilbert.com]

>> Doing The Impossible [dilbert.com]

4. Pick of the Week

Finally, last week I talked about the new hosted technical debt platform from vFunction :

>> The Assessment Hub Express

Simply put, it’s a solid way to understand what your technical debt actually looks like.