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Quarkus
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See the magic behind Quarkus, the cloud-native Java framework

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Our first DevNation Live regional event was held in Bengaluru, India in July. This free technology event focused on open source innovations, with sessions presented by elite Red Hat technologists. Quarkus is revolutionizing the way that we develop Java applications for the cloud-native era, and this tutorial, presented by Edson Yanaga , explains why. Yanaga looks at how Quarkus works and the techniques it uses to achieve its dramatic startup speed improvements. He also covers the Quarkus extension API, so...

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Why Java is so hot right now

Rhuan Rocha

The Java platform has become one of the most widely used platforms, with a huge ecosystem in the world of technology. Java lets developers create applications for several platforms, such as Windows, Linux, embedded systems, and mobile. Java also has received criticisms, such as: Java is fat; Java takes a lot of memory; Java is verbose. But, Java was created to solve big problems, not small problems. Of course, you can also solve small problems with Java, but you see...

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The browser wars and the birth of JavaScript

Doug Tidwell

Born of the browser wars of the 1990s, JavaScript has gone from a simple scripting language to be the most important ecosystem of the development world.

Project Loom
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Project Loom: Lightweight Java threads

Faisal Masood

This article explains how the use of lightweight threads, supported by Project Loom, can help you write scalable code in Java.

Thorntail
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Announcing Thorntail 2.4 general availability

James Falkner

Thorntail is the new name for WildFly Swarm and bundles everything you need to develop and run Thorntail and MicroProfile applications. Learn more.

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Natively compile Java code for better startup time

Faisal Masood

Serverless architectures can benefit from faster startup times. The configuration demonstrated in this article shows how GraalVM can reduce startup time and Docker image size for Java-based programs hosted on container platforms such as Red Hat OpenShift Containter Platform.