JVM
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Software Development
The Pause-Free Gamble: Why Swift Chose ARC Over the JVM’s Garbage Collector
When Apple formally unveiled Swift in 2014, the software engineering world was dominated by a quiet consensus. For high-level languages—whether…
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Software Development
The Pause-Free Gamble: Why Swift Chose ARC Over the JVM’s Garbage Collector
When Apple formally unveiled Swift in 2014, the software engineering world was dominated by a quiet consensus. For high-level languages—whether…
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Software Development
WebAssembly and the JVM: Two Answers to “Write Once, Run Anywhere”
Same bet, twenty years apart: a portable bytecode format run by a sandboxed virtual machine. In 1995, Sun Microsystems built…
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Software Development
Escape Analysis and Scalar Replacement: Why Some Objects Never Touch the Heap
Small, verifiable before and after code examples showing what helps, or defeats, the JIT’s ability to keep an object off…
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Core Java
Kotlin in 2025–2026: The K2 Era and the Rise of True Multiplatform Development
Kotlin has always positioned itself as a pragmatic language—concise, safe, and deeply integrated with the JVM ecosystem. However, the latest…
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Core Java
The Object Allocation Tax: Why Your Java Service Is 40% GC and How the JIT’s Escape Analysis Both Helps and Misleads You
A ground-level look at how HotSpot C2 decides between scalar replacement and heap allocation, the everyday patterns that silently defeat…
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Core Java
Virtual Threads One Year in Production: What Teams Got Wrong and What Actually Improved
Project Loom shipped in Java 21 in September 2023. Two-plus years of real production data — including Netflix’s deadlock post-mortem,…
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Enterprise Java
The JVM Garbage Collector Decision in 2026: G1 vs ZGC vs Shenandoah for Real Workloads
UPDATED — now with Parallel GC ZGC and Shenandoah have both gone generational. G1 picked up meaningful JDK 25 improvements.…
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Core Java
Java 21 vs Java 25 LTS: The Migration Decision Framework Teams Are Avoiding
Two LTS releases now coexist. Virtual thread pinning is fixed. Memory is down 22%. Startup is faster. The gap is…
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