Liberica JDK release accessibility
We at BellSoft emphasize that Liberica JDK must be convenient and accessible to all users. Our development team makes sure the runtime is available as Docker container images, on package managers, clouds, and other distribution...
Microservices 101: Understanding the architecture
“Microservices” is truly the buzzword of these recent years. You’ve heard it mentioned in various tech-related contexts, at conferences, on IT giants’ websites. So much is written around the topic, and yet you might (very...
Liberica JDK 15 brings efficiency and flexibility
It’s time to welcome the much-awaited version 15 of OpenJDK. The new release has 14 new features, 2949 bug fixes and backports in total, with eight issues resolved by the BellSoft team (like Thread-local handshakes...
Hunting down memory issues with JDK Flight Recorder
In this post about JDK Flight Recorder and Mission Control, a powerful diagnostic and profiling tool built into OpenJDK, I would like to focus on JVM memory features.
7 reasons to switch from Oracle JDK to Liberica JDK
In January 2019, Oracle stopped releasing free builds of Oracle Java SE 8 for commercial use. Seeing this change in their JDK distributor’s subscription policy, many businesses started to look for alternatives. The implementations not...
Hunting down code hotspots with JDK Flight Recorder
Hunting down code hotspots is probably the most common task for Java profilers. JDK Flight Recorder (JFR) and Mission Control (MC) are free and open source performance/profiling products available with OpenJDK 11.
