The latest release of Apache Kafka delivers the queue-like consumption semantics of point-to-point messaging. Here’s the how, what, and why. Since its initial release in 2011, Apache Kafka has ...

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AI on the JVM accelerates: New frameworks like Embabel, Koog, Spring AI, and LangChain4j drive rapid adoption of AI-native and AI-assisted development in Java. Java 25 anchors a modern baseline: The ...

I'm a software engineer with 7 years of experience. I enjoy data structure, graph theory, and distributed systems. In the previous article, we figured out how to implement server-side interceptors. In ...

Loom is a newer project in the Java and JVM ecosystem. Hosted by OpenJDK, the Loom project addresses limitations in the traditional Java concurrency model. In particular, it offers a lighter ...

Azurite is an open-source Azure Storage API compatible server (emulator). It currently supports the Blob, Queue, and Table services. We have received many customer asks on ADLS Gen2 support in Azurite ...

The concept of a queue is very simple: there is a sender and a receiver, the first sends messages, and the second receives them. But still, the semantics of delivery is crucial. At-most-once is also ...

To measure latency we take the three stage pipeline and generate events at less than saturation. This is achieved by waiting 1 microsecond after injecting an event before injecting the next and ...