Internals
- Overhead of Returning Optional Values in Java and Rust | Piotr Kołaczkowski
- Writing a Profiler in 240 Lines of Pure Java | Mostly nerdless
Articles
- Use Java for Everything (2014) and related Java in the small (2024).
- Java Best Practices | Jonathan Giles
Interesting libraries
Permazen Permazen is a ground-up rethink of Java persistence. It has been in production use in commercial software since 2015.
Instead of starting from the storage technology side, it starts from the programming language side, asking the simple question, “What are the issues that are inherent to persistence programming, regardless of programming language or database storage technology, and how can they be addressed at the language level in the simplest, most correct, and most language-natural way?”