Grab a cup of hot coffee and brush up on your Java skills in this issue of the JAX London Whitepaper. You’ll read all about Java runtimes for a cloud-centric world, app testing, garbage collection tuning success stories, and see how the Kotlin programming language compares.
Grab a cup of hot coffee and brush up on your Java skills in this issue of the JAX London Whitepaper. You’ll read all about Java runtimes for a cloud-centric world, app testing, garbage collection tuning success stories, and see how the Kotlin programming language compares.
Kotlin – the better Java?
By Moritz Kammerer
Getting Started with the DataStax Astra Java SDK
By Cédrick Lunven
Unleashing new Java powers
By Michael Simons
No Honeycomb Testing and Mocks? You’re Probably Getting App Testing Wrong
By Nate Lee
An introduction to JobRunr, a distributed background job scheduler
By Ronald Dehuysser
Evolving Java Runtimes for a Cloud-Centric World
By Gil Tene
Time to Modernize Ops
By Lori MacVittie
Garbage Collection tuning success story – reducing young gen size
By Ram Lakshmanan
TRIBUO CONCEPTS
Tribuo is a statically & strongly typed Machine Learning library written in Java. It operates on objects rather than multidimensional arrays, meaning models accept example objects and produce typed Prediction outputs. It also uses the type system to enforce that the training datasets line up with the expected models.
SPRING BOOT – ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW
The term „Microservices Framework“ is often used when talking about Spring Boot. This is only partly true: Spring Boot is suitable for small services as well as for monolithic applications. These services or applications can be pure Web APIs or web applications, command line programs, or orchestrating applications.