For years, Java developers heard the same advice: “synchronized is slow, so avoid it.” Then, around Java 6, that advice quietly stopped being true. A hidden HotSpot optimization called biased locking was a big reason…
The dashboard looks calm. CPU usage sits near 20%, memory is fine, and yet the p99 latency graph keeps spiking. Many teams hit this puzzle after moving a Java service into Kubernetes, and the culprit is often a CPU…
Hi everyone! This is Mikhail Polivakha, technical lead of the Axelix project (an Open Source product that helps you find common problems and inefficiencies in Spring Boot applications — btw, give us a star!). I want to…
I used Dropbox for decades, then switched to Google Drive. Both worked for most of my files. One file never fit, though: my KeePass password database. It’s the file I need on every device and the file I want to keep…
Many LLM calls in business applications ask a question whose answer is one of a few options. Which team handles this ticket? Is this message spam? How urgent is it? The usual way is to send the question to a large…