Java SE 13 (Sept 2019) introduced text blocks as a preview feature, aimed at reducing the pain of declaring and using multi-line string literals in Java. It was subsequently refined in a second ...

Java’s sun.misc.Unsafe class has been in use since 2002. It provides essential low-level methods that framework developers use to deliver otherwise unobtainable features and performance. Unfortunately ...

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Have you ever wondered how Java seamlessly combines its primitive data types with object-oriented programming? Enter wrapper classes, an important but often overlooked Java feature. These special ...

The central tendencies we currently see in the tech industry are related to the continuous expansion of cloud computing and the rapid adoption of AI. For Java development, these trends are also ...

On the day before Thanksgiving 2020, the Amazon Kinesis data streaming service in AWS' main region US-East-1 went down for several hours. The company explained the outage in its subsequent failure ...