The JDK Release Cadence Turns 10: Did Six-Month Releases Actually Speed Up Java?

Cast your mind back to September 2017. Mark Reinhold, chief architect of the Java Platform Group at Oracle, posted a short but…

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TypeScript Became the #1 Language on GitHub in 2025

What the numbers actually tell us — and what it means for JavaScript-only codebases still running in production. In August…

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Memory Safety Without Rust: How C++, Go, Python, and Java Each Approach the Problem and Where Each Falls Short

Post-quantum security, the Linux kernel’s Rust adoption, and NSA/CISA memory safety advisories have turned this into a board-level conversation. Yet…

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The Classloading Graph: Why Your Spring Boot App’s Startup Time Is a Classloading Problem and Not a Bean Problem

Startup time is nearly always blamed on bean initialisation. The actual bottleneck is usually classloading — a graph traversal problem…

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Vector API at Eleven Incubations: Why This API Takes So Long and What’s Blocking It

JEP 529 ships in JDK 26 with no substantial changes since JDK 25. After five years and eleven rounds, the…

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Using AI and Machine Learning To Create Software

From line-completion to autonomous agents that plan, write, test, and ship entire features — a practical, data-driven look at where…

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The Lies Your JVM Profiler Tells You: Safepoints, Biased Sampling, and WhyYour Hotspot Analysis Is Wrong

You ran your profiler. You found the hotspot. You optimised it. Performance didn’t change. Here’s the precise technical reason why…

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Temporal Coupling:The Hidden Dependency That Breaks Systems

Race conditions, event ordering failures, and the “works on my machine” mystery all share the same root cause — a…

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The Language Rewrite Question: When Migration Actually Pays Off — and When It Doesn’t

Discord, Figma, Shopify, and Dropbox all documented their rewrites with real outcomes. There is now enough evidence to build a…

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