Essential Reading For Engineering Leaders

How Netflix Uses Java - 2025 Edition

- Paul Bakker

Java
Video

tl;dr: “In this talk, you’ll learn how Netflix is using Java in 2025 and what benefits and possible issues we’re seeing running most of our services on the latest Java releases. You’ll learn about how we build our services with Spring Boot, DGS/GraphQL, and gRPC. We’ll go into dependency management and how we keep over 3000 Java services on the latest versions of frameworks and libraries, as well as the JDK itself.”

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How Much Faster Is Java 17?

- Geoffrey De Smet

Java

tl;dr: "Java 17 is 8.66% faster than Java 11 and 2.41% faster than Java 16 for G1GC (default)."

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Good Code Is 90% Boilerplate

BestPractices
Java

tl;dr: The more code you write, the more monotonous it becomes. Some languages like Java require a lot of code to be written for little functionality. In this article there is an example of writing a Java app in a "more efficient, more enjoyable way".

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Guide to Functional Interfaces in Java

- Shubham Aggarwal