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The Ultimate Guide to Java Virtual Threads

Rock the JVM

Riccardo is a proud alumnus of Rock the JVM, now a senior engineer working on critical systems written in Java, Scala and Kotlin. Version 19 of Java came at the end of 2022, bringing us a lot of exciting stuff. First, we need to use a version of Java that is at least 19. Another tour de force by Riccardo Cardin.

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A Tour Around Buck2, Meta's New Build System

Tweag

Buck2 is a from-scratch rewrite of Buck , a polyglot, monorepo build system that was developed and used at Meta (Facebook), and shares a few similarities with Bazel. As you may know, the Scalable Builds Group at Tweag has a strong interest in such scalable build systems. Meta recently announced they have made Buck2 open-source.

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Build faster with Buck2: Our open source build system

Engineering at Meta

Buck2, our new open source, large-scale build system , is now available on GitHub. Buck2 is an extensible and performant build system written in Rust and designed to make your build experience faster and more efficient. In particular, we support Sapling-based file systems. Why rebuild Buck?

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Top 10 Hadoop Interview Questions You Must Know

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is a Java-based file system that is Distributed, Scalable, and Portable. Still, it does include shell commands and Java Application Programming Interface (API) functions that are similar to other file systems.

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Handling Flaky Unit Tests in Java

Uber Engineering

Unit testing forms the bedrock of any Continuous Integration (CI) system. It also … The post Handling Flaky Unit Tests in Java appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog. It warns software engineers of bugs in newly-implemented code and regressions in existing code, before it is merged. This ensures increased software reliability.

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Java 11 Features: A Brief Overview

U-Next

Introduction Java, one of the world’s most widely used and in-demand programming languages, has continued to develop since its introduction in 1995. Because of the periodic release cycle, it takes a little more work these days to keep up with the latest releases of Java. What Are the Features of Java 11?

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Translating Java to Kotlin at Scale

Engineering at Meta

Meta has been on a years-long undertaking to translate our entire Android codebase from Java to Kotlin. We could simply decide to write all new code in Kotlin and leave our existing Java code as is, just as many other companies have. As long as we have substantial amounts of Java, we need to continue supporting parallel tool chains.

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