Pop quiz: Do you know what annotation metadata is? If you’re like most coders, you don’t—and that has been okay, says Graeme Rocher, creator of Java application frameworks, including Grails. But in a ...

Application performance monitoring (APM) and observability solutions provider Instana today announced the availability of automated distributed tracing for Lambda functions written in Java or Go, ...

The Java platform’s garbage collection mechanism greatly increases developer productivity, but a poorly implemented garbage collector can over-consume application resources. In this third article in ...

With components and APIs provisioned across multiple servers in cloud-based, virtual environments, it's difficult to map out a flow of execution for synchronous interactions where you can clearly ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Imagine you begin to feel ill on Thursday, a few days after returning from a ...