A new year means it is time to write up a totally unsolicited list of my wish lists for the Java programming language in 2025. But first, a little bit of background on me. Java, the programming language, has been quite good to me, and for that, I’m sincerely grateful. Over the last 20 years …
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The crazy benefits of ZGC
The chart above is for a reasonably complex application running globally across multiple AWS regions and JVMs on JDK19, the dip in average memory usage is the switch to ZGC – a whopping 50% for our busiest regions in terms of heap size. Now, there is a lot out there about how ZGC uses memory …