Support nullness markers on Java types to indicate that a type rejects or deliberately allows nulls. This is a preview language feature.

Leyden is not a replacement for GraalVM native images but rather a substantial evolution of the JVM, and we expect it to bring some benefits to native images as well.

we need to understand how unused topics can cause pressure on Kafka. Like many other storage systems, all Kafka topics have a retention period, meaning that for any unused topics, the data will be purged after a period of time and the topic will become empty. A common question here is, “How could empty topics affect Kafka?”

This blog post shows in a success story of Intersport how some use cases store data long term in Kafka with no other database. The retailer requires accurate stock info across the supply chain, including the point of sale (POS) in all international stores

With 20+ production topics onboarded since May 2024, our broker-decoupled Tiered Storage implementation currently offloads ~200 TB of data every day from broker disk to a cheaper object storage. In this blog, we share the approach we took and the learnings we gained.

The recent JDK release, JDK 23, completely removes the COMPAT database that Elasticseach is currently using, leaving CLDR as the only option for locale data. This means we are forced to change the locale database used by Elasticsearch running on JDK 23 and above when we upgrade to use JDK 23.

Java is used on embedded platforms for in-car infotainment and information displays, home automation and production environment edge gateways, medical devices, appliances, and the list goes on.