The latest release of Apache Kafka delivers the queue-like consumption semantics of point-to-point messaging. Here’s the how, what, and why. Since its initial release in 2011, Apache Kafka has ...

On February 16, 2026, in South Tangerang, Java, Indonesia, security footage captured a laptop exploding and emitting a large amount of smoke inside a shop. In the video, the device appears to spark ...

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So, you’re looking to get better at those tricky LeetCode problems, especially the ones with stacks and queues? Good call! These data structures pop up all the time in coding interviews. It can feel a ...

Over the past decade I have been involved in several projects that have designed either instruction set architecture (ISA) extensions or clean-slate ISAs for various kinds of processors (you will even ...

I'm a software engineer with 7 years of experience. I enjoy data structure, graph theory, and distributed systems. In the previous article, we figured out how to implement server-side interceptors. In ...

I'm a software engineer with 7 years of experience. I enjoy data structure, graph theory, and distributed systems. Once, I had a requirement to implement server-side logging for GRPC requests. GRPC ...

Loom is a newer project in the Java and JVM ecosystem. Hosted by OpenJDK, the Loom project addresses limitations in the traditional Java concurrency model. In particular, it offers a lighter ...