How a language built to run on set-top boxes became the default substrate of enterprise computing, banking, and Android — by betting everything on a portable bytecode and a virtual machine. The arc from Gosling's Green Project through "write once, run anywhere," the Oracle acquisition and the API copyright wars, to the polyglot JVM that outlived Java's own dominance.
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NGINX Unit: The Application Server Nobody Talks About A deep-dive into NGINX Unit — the language-agnostic application server with a REST API-driven configuration model that eliminates uWSGI, Gunicorn, and separate process managers. Covers architecture, live config reloads, Python/PHP/Go/Node/Java setup, TLS, routing, Docker, and Kubernetes, plus an honest assessment of its archived status and when it still makes sense to use.
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Java in 2026: Still Relevant Modern Java (17–25), records, sealed classes, virtual threads (Project Loom), GraalVM native images, and an honest assessment of where Java stands today.
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Pyroscope: Continuous Profiling in Production Pyroscope brings always-on profiling to production systems — flame graphs for CPU hotspots, memory leaks, and goroutine issues, correlated with your traces and metrics.