Stop guessing with sampling profilers. 🎯 Java 25 (JEP 520) brings deterministic profiling directly to the JDK via JFR Method Timing & Tracing. No external agents needed. Deep dive into bytecode mechanics and overhead here: 👇 ionutbalosin.com/2026/05/jfr-... #Java #JDK25

Compact Object Headers - Reducing Java's Memory Footprint 👉 ionutbalosin.com/2026/04/comp... #Java #JVM #JDK25 #Performance #OpenJDK

Compact Object Headers - Reducing Java's Memory Footprint 👉 ionutbalosin.com/2026/04/comp... #Java #JVM #JDK25 #Performance #OpenJDK

🎉 I am officially renewed as an Oracle ACE Associate for June 2026 - May 2027. Thank you to the Oracle community for this recognition. Looking forward to a new year of learning and knowledge sharing! 🚀 #OracleACE

📝 New article: Software Architecture in the AI Era - What Doesn't Change, What Does. Capabilities vs. behaviour, why AI defaults to complexity, the PoC-to-production chasm, and the Agentic Mesh as a cross-cutting pattern. 🔗 ionutbalosin.com/2026/06/soft... #SoftwareArchitecture #AI #LLM

📝 New article: Software Architecture in the AI Era - What Doesn't Change, What Does. Capabilities vs. behaviour, why AI defaults to complexity, the PoC-to-production chasm, and the Agentic Mesh as a cross-cutting pattern. 🔗 ionutbalosin.com/2026/06/soft... #SoftwareArchitecture #AI #LLM

After a year of daily AI-assisted coding, I wrote down what actually works — spec-driven dev, skills as guardrails, incremental verification, and the 4 gaps. ionutbalosin.com/2026/05/tami... AI is an amplifier. It magnifies discipline and chaos with equal enthusiasm. #AI #SoftwareEngineering

After a year of daily AI-assisted coding, I wrote down what actually works — spec-driven dev, skills as guardrails, incremental verification, and the 4 gaps. ionutbalosin.com/2026/05/tami... AI is an amplifier. It magnifies discipline and chaos with equal enthusiasm. #AI #SoftwareEngineering

🚀 G1 GC: 5-15% Performance Gains with Dual Card Tables Read more: ionutbalosin.com/2026/05/g1-g... #Java #Performance #GarbageCollection #JVM #JDK26

Creativity and curiosity are becoming the main differentiators for software engineers in the AI era. It's less and less about technical depth.

Conway’s Law has reflected organizational structures in software architecture for decades. Today, with AI and LLMs, organizations are changing to properly absorb them.

📢#Java 25 is now available!📢 Your: ☕️ FREE ☕️ Multi-platform ☕️ Open source ☕️ Production ready ☕️ Binary release ...made available by @Oracle. Learn more ➡️ blogs.oracle.com/java/post/th... #Java25 #JDK25 #OpenJDK

Wow, what a great Monday morning - what I once dreamed of has become reality today. I’m extremely honored to join the @java-champions.bsky.social program 🥳🎉 A huge thank you to everyone who voted for me, and especially to my nominator, @hansolo.eu 🙏 Thank you so much, #Java DevRel Team at #Oracle

Happy to be eligible again for the Oracle ACE Program! Grateful for the recognition and ready for another year of sharing and community work. @oracleace.bsky.social #OracleACE

🔒 A practical guide to security testing for Java applications - with tools, examples, and commands. ✅ SCA ✅ SAST ✅ DAST ✅ Penetration Testing 👉 ionutbalosin.com/2025/03/secu... 📦 github.com/ionutbalosin... #Java #AppSec

🔒 Check out my article on "API Web Application Security for Java Developers". Discover essential mechanisms for securing APIs, authN, authZ, and improving the security of web your apps. 📖 Article: ionutbalosin.com/2025/03/api-... 💻 GitHub: github.com/ionutbalosin... #java #security

🔒 Check out my article on "API Web Application Security for Java Developers". Discover essential mechanisms for securing APIs, authN, authZ, and improving the security of web your apps. 📖 Article: ionutbalosin.com/2025/03/api-... 💻 GitHub: github.com/ionutbalosin... #java #security

🎉 Java turns 30! Launched on May 23, 1995. ☕ #Java30 #HappyBirthdayJava

Out of curiosity, I just searched for "#Java #performance #course" on both Google 🌐 and ChatGPT 🤖 — and my course popped up among the top results. Google ranked it 6th 🔥, and ChatGPT listed it 3rd 🚀. It’s a great feeling to see how it has grown in popularity within the #Java community ☕️.

TIL: since jdk22 you can use the JVM option -XX:LogClassLoadingCauseFor=com.mycompany.MyClass in conjunction with -Xlog:class+load+cause* to find out the stacktrace that triggers the load of the specify class. see github.com/openjdk/jdk/...

Insightful session on advanced performance analysis with async-profiler, presented by Andrei Pangin. 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7-S... #Java #Performance #Profiling

🔐 How to #secure your #Java app? In this article, I cover #core #security #practices every #Java developer should know - from securing resources and validating input to encryption, hashing, secret management, logging, and safe deserialization. 👉 ionutbalosin.com/2025/03/core... #Java #Security

🎥 Curious how Netflix scales its backend? @pbakker.bsky.social shares insights into Netflix’s architecture and how they use #Java www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpun...

🚀 Call for Contributors If you're interested in contributing to the #JVM #Performance #Benchmarks project - an initiative that gained significant traction in the #Java community through our recent #JDK17 and #JDK11 analyses - check out the repo: 🔗 github.com/ionutbalosin...

🚀 Call for Contributors If you're interested in contributing to the #JVM #Performance #Benchmarks project - an initiative that gained significant traction in the #Java community through our recent #JDK17 and #JDK11 analyses - check out the repo: 🔗 github.com/ionutbalosin...

🚀 Our talk "Unlocking the Unknowns: #Cryptography #Essentials for #Java Devs" with @laurspilca.bsky.social is now online! 🎥 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqQ2... 📂 Code: github.com/ionutbalosin... 📑 Slides: ionutbalosin.com/wp-content/u... Enjoy!

🚀 Our talk "Unlocking the Unknowns: #Cryptography #Essentials for #Java Devs" with @laurspilca.bsky.social is now online! 🎥 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqQ2... 📂 Code: github.com/ionutbalosin... 📑 Slides: ionutbalosin.com/wp-content/u... Enjoy!

🇫🇷 Merci d'être venu aussi nombreux dans l'amphi bleu à #DevoxxFrance @devoxx.fr ! voici mes slides pour la session comment debugger en production ! ginnieandfifounet.com/jpb/slides/P...

🚀 Just updated my well-starred Java eCommerce Application! 🧱 Examples of: - Hexagonal & event-driven microservices - Perf, scalability & resiliency tactics - REST, schema-first, async logging, caching & more Check it out 👉 github.com/ionutbalosin... #Java #Architecture #Microservices #OpenSource

🚀 Just updated my well-starred Java eCommerce Application! 🧱 Examples of: - Hexagonal & event-driven microservices - Perf, scalability & resiliency tactics - REST, schema-first, async logging, caching & more Check it out 👉 github.com/ionutbalosin... #Java #Architecture #Microservices #OpenSource

A little interview with my friend @ionutbalosin.bsky.social at #VoxxedDaysRomania youtu.be/y2ok731-Dsg?... #DevRelEspresso #java #community

Top-notch talks this evening at the Java Meetup #Vienna with talks by @chumer.dev and @hansolo.eu on Truffle Metacompilation and JVM Memory Management 🚀

Next Monday, join me at the Java Meetup Vienna for a dive into Truffle! Discover how writing an interpreter in Java lands you a compiler for free. Besides free compilers there is also free pizza and beer... www.meetup.com/java-vienna/...

🚀 New Security Updates in My #Java #Security Repo! 🔐 Updates: ✅ Symmetric & Asymmetric Encryption 🔑 ✅ Message Hashing & HMAC 🛡️ ✅ Password Hashing🔒 ✅ Upgraded to Spring Boot 3.4.3 🚀 Check it out! 👇 🔗 github.com/ionutbalosin...

🚀 New Security Updates in My #Java #Security Repo! 🔐 Updates: ✅ Symmetric & Asymmetric Encryption 🔑 ✅ Message Hashing & HMAC 🛡️ ✅ Password Hashing🔒 ✅ Upgraded to Spring Boot 3.4.3 🚀 Check it out! 👇 🔗 github.com/ionutbalosin...

Nice blogpost about solutions that help with #JVM startup… #java #openjdk softwaremill.com/how-to-impro...

Interesting comparison of startup and memory footprint of @graalvm.org native image vs Leyden early access build. We have btw also work underway that will allow arbitrary class loading by adding a Java interpreter to your native image. github.com/simonis/Leyd...

Thank you to everyone who attended our session Unlocking the Unknowns: Cryptography Essentials for Java Devs 🚀, co-presented with top security expert @laurspilca.bsky.social at Voxxed Bucharest 📑 Slides: ionutbalosin.com/wp-content/u... Big thanks to organizers 🙌 Ghibutiu Andra and Alex Proca🎉👏

Thank you for a great event, Voxxed Days Bucharest! Great energy, amazing speakers, a lot of engaged developers, networking, and lots of ACE swag! ♠️😍 @ionutbalosin.bsky.social @martinelli.ch #OracleACE

Looking forward to hearing the trashtalk by @hansolo.eu

🚀 New article: Boost your security skills with my latest guide on essential #application #security #testing!  Explore SCA, SAST, DAST, and PenTest to protect your projects from vulnerabilities.  #JavaSecurity #Cybersecurity #AppSec #SecurityTesting ionutbalosin.com/2025/03/secu...

🚀 New article: Boost your security skills with my latest guide on essential #application #security #testing!  Explore SCA, SAST, DAST, and PenTest to protect your projects from vulnerabilities.  #JavaSecurity #Cybersecurity #AppSec #SecurityTesting ionutbalosin.com/2025/03/secu...

🚀 New article: Strengthen your Java app's security with API authentication, CSP, CORS, and HTTP security headers. Dive into this comprehensive guide for Java developers: API Web Application Security ionutbalosin.com/2025/03/api-... #Java #Security #APIsecurity

🚀 New article: Strengthen your Java app's security with API authentication, CSP, CORS, and HTTP security headers. Dive into this comprehensive guide for Java developers: API Web Application Security ionutbalosin.com/2025/03/api-... #Java #Security #APIsecurity

🚀 New article: Core Application Security for Java Developers 🔒 Content: securing resource access, input validation, encryption, hashing, secrets management, logging, and deserialization vulnerabilities. 📚💻 Check it out: ionutbalosin.com/2025/03/core... #Java #Security

🚀 New article: Core Application Security for Java Developers 🔒 Content: securing resource access, input validation, encryption, hashing, secrets management, logging, and deserialization vulnerabilities. 📚💻 Check it out: ionutbalosin.com/2025/03/core... #Java #Security