Debugging is one of the most common tasks in software development, so one would assume that all features of debuggers have ample coverage in tutorials and guides. Yet there are three hidden gems of the Java Debugging (JDWP) agent that allow you to de...

2023 has been an adventurous year for me: I came into my blogging rhythm, blogging every one to two weeks, resulting in 39 blog posts, spoke at my first conferences, around 14 overall, 22 if you include JUGs and online conferences, and continued work...

JFR (JDK Flight Recorder) is the default profiler for OpenJDK (see my other blog posts for more information). What makes JFR stand out from the other profilers is the ability to log many, many different events that contain lots of information, like...

The Foreign Function & Memory API (also called Project Panama) has come a long way since it started. You can find the latest version implemented in JDK 21 as a preview feature (use --enable-preview to enable it) which is specified by the JEP 454...

According to the recent JetBrains survey, most people use Maven as their build system and build Spring Boot applications with Java. Yet my profiling plugin for IntelliJ only supports profiling pure Java run configuration. Configurations where the J...