Modern applications require demanding real-time "reactive" access. To support reactive development, actor models and domain-driven design can fulfill contemporary resiliency requirements.

Learn about new Java 8 features in Eclipse Collections, a high performance Java Collections framework, and see some of the new things we’ve done to prepare for Java 9. 1

In this article we cover techniques for determining whether automatic vertical scaling can help, and how to get it configured for your project

In this article we peel the onion of the potential architectural fitness of microservices in the context of Master Data Management, and challenges of solving compute-intensive problem domains. 2

Starting with a brief history of software testing, we investigate Cascade, a new framework for testing “journeys”, eliminating overlapping coverage to produce fast unit tests.

This article is a case study of changes required in an application to make use of the new Java Module System, an important skill for Java developers using Java 9 and beyond. 6

Reladomo, the primary Java ORM used at Goldman Sachs, is now open source. In this part 2 GS's Mohammad Rezaei investigates performance, sharding, caching, bitemporal access, and testing.

Oracle has announced the deprecation of Object::finalize. We take a deep look to understand how it works, why it's being deprecated and the recommended approach to replace finalization. 3

A superficial look at application performance will quite often have the garbage collector undeservedly incriminate itself. A proper GC log analysis can lead us past the “blame the collector” game.

Yang Bo shows how the reusability features of Binding.scala reduce the number of lines of code and complexity involved in reusing components.