Cloud

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Every production application carries secrets: database passwords, API tokens, encryption keys. The question is never whether to manage them …

Autoscaling on Kubernetes has evolved significantly, but many production systems still rely on reactive scaling based on CPU and memory …

BoxLang 1.15.0 is a high-impact release with two big headlines and a long tail of hardening. The first headline is a massive performance …

Jul 8, 2026 Tom Cools

AMD hyperthreading caused solver performance variance in our Java based cloud pods. Switching to ARM instances doubled throughput per …

I recently had the pleasure of joining the Foojay podcast to talk about Quarkus in depth. The conversation covered a lot of ground, from …

Skip the Dockerfile. Learn how to build Java containers with Azul Zulu via Paketo Buildpacks — covering Spring Boot, jlink, JFR, JMX, and …

What if you could run 35 AWS services locally in under 25 milliseconds, using just 13 megabytes of memory, with a single Docker command and …

Previously in this series: Trusted Java Containers: Azul Zulu OpenJDK Joins Docker’s Official Images The Road to Docker Official Images for …

Previously in this series: Trusted Java Containers: Azul Zulu OpenJDK Joins Docker’s Official Images The Road to Docker Official Images for …

Previously in this series: Trusted Java Containers: Azul Zulu OpenJDK Joins Docker’s Official Images After more than two years of …