Kevin Farnham

Technology writer and software engineer focused on high-performance low-latency big-data Java, Python, C/C++ programming.

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I spoke with Fabiane recently about Tail Target, its objectives, the theory behind it, and the underlying technology. Read on!

Now that 2021 is well underway, many prominent Java developers have taken the time to predict what 2021 may bring to the Java universe!

If OpenJDK is the background source for your livelihood, you might want to contribute to future development of the OpenJDK. Find out how!

Build a realistic workload, profile it, and tune the code if possible, or the JVM to optimise for that use case.

The Java virtual machine is a system whereby any code could be run on any machine or operating system that supports a JVM.

See that the time to execute the bytecode for a simple program is a small fraction of the time to compile it using javac.

Everyone who programs in Java is familiar with the term "bytecode". But how many of us understand what JDK bytecode actually is?

The capability of the JVM to overcome problems related to hardware and operating systems is why we're seeing inventions of new languages on …

Looking at the latest TIOBE Programming Community Index, we see Java has surpassed C in the TIOBE ratings index, with Python holding steady …

Every advance in creating a better performing JVM will increase the performance of every program ever developed in any JVM language.