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 ...

On February 16, 2026, in South Tangerang, Java, Indonesia, security footage captured a laptop exploding and emitting a large amount of smoke inside a shop. In the video, the device appears to spark ...

Welcome to the Fall 2026 edition of 15-410/605. If you've forgotten how to modify your shell startup files (e.g., so that your PATH environment variable includes a specific directory automatically ...

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 ...

When working with queues, the preferred terms for adding and retrieving messages from Transactional Event Queues are enqueue and dequeue. To write data to a queue, the queue must be both created and ...

Brandeis Online’s Master of Software Engineering (MSE) degree prepares experienced and aspiring technologists to design, build and maintain complex software systems across a growing field. From mobile ...

Event sourcing is an architectural software pattern that's useful to design complex and distributed systems, particularly those that run many processes concurrently. The pattern captures and stores ...

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 ...

An Event Loop, often referred to as a message dispatcher, is a fundamental design pattern that serves as a central component for managing and dispatching events or messages within a software ...

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 ...