Together, the Java Development Kit (JDK), the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), and the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) form a powerful trifecta of Java and Jakarta EE platform components for developing and ...

There is some overlap -- but they're fundamentally different. Java instrumentation will track each and every instance of a given metric. This can create performance issues. Java sampling involves ...

The terms JVM tuning and Java optimization are often used interchangeably, but there is an important difference between the two practices. In short, JVM tuning requires some tradeoff between metrics ...

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The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is a vital part of modern distributed computing. It is the platform of big data applications like Spark, HDFS, Cassandra,and Hive. While the JVM provides “write once, ...

Kotlin is a modern alternative to Java that supports functional programming in the JVM. Here's a first look at programming with Kotlin using some of the concepts and syntax you already know from Java.

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[Dimitri] sent in a project he’s been working on that implements a Java Virtual Machine purely in C, and is easily portable between microcontrollers such as the AVRs and PICs we normally see, ARM ...