Turns out Java can do serverless right — with GraalVM and Spring, cold starts are tamed and performance finally heats up.

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Compilers are a bit like Florida election officials: They’re suddenly in the spotlight after years of relative anonymity. The reason for the attention is the arrival of fast and complex 64-bit ...

In the last year or two, interest in "alternative" languages on top of the Java Virtual Machine has grown exponentially, to the point where three languages were blessed with official acceptance in the ...

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Chronon Systems, which offers technology for recording and playing back Java programs, contends that the bytecode verifier featured in Java 7 is a huge step backward for the Java virtual machine. “The ...

A Java compiler is a program that takes the text file work of a developer and compiles it into a platform-independent Java file. Java compilers include the Java Programming Language Compiler (javac), ...