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Best Java GUI Frameworks for Modern Applications

This article reviews the top 8 Java GUI frameworks — Swing, SWT, JGoodies, JavaFX, JIDE, Apache Pivot, Hibernate, and Spring.

February 6, 2026

by Rodolfo Ortega

· 3,474 Views

Rate Limiting Beyond “N Requests/sec”: Adaptive Throttling for Spiky Workloads (Spring Cloud Gateway)

Build smarter Spring Cloud Gateway throttling — fair per-client limits, a global cap, and adaptive tuning — to survive spikes without meltdowns.

February 4, 2026

by Varun Pandey

· 1,255 Views · 1 Like

How Global Payment Processors like Stripe and PayPal Use Apache Kafka and Flink to Scale

How top payment processor companies like Stripe, PayPal, Payoneer, and Worldline use data streaming for real-time payments and fraud detection.

February 3, 2026

by Kai Wähner

CORE

· 1,517 Views · 3 Likes

The Future of Data Streaming with Apache Flink for Agentic AI

Flink and Kafka enable real-time agentic AI by streaming fresh data and model context via the MCP standard for intelligent actions at scale.

January 21, 2026

by Kai Wähner

CORE

· 1,971 Views

Why High-Availability Java Systems Fail Quietly Before They Fail Loudly

High-availability Java systems usually fail gradually. Early warning signs appear across correlated JVM metrics long before outages, but static alerts miss them.

January 21, 2026

by Krishna Kandi

· 2,420 Views · 2 Likes

How to Secure a Spring AI MCP Server with an API Key via Spring Security

Discover how to protect your Spring AI MCP server with an API key, including clear instructions, sample code, and recommended security practices.

January 14, 2026

by Horatiu Dan

CORE

· 3,807 Views · 7 Likes

Kotlin Code Style: Best Practices for Former Java Developers

Many Kotlin projects mirror Java thinking—code that works but lacks Kotlin’s true strengths of conciseness, expressiveness, and safety, creating “Java with a Kotlin accent.”

January 12, 2026

by Konstantin Glumov

· 3,028 Views · 3 Likes

Building a Containerized Quarkus API and a CI/CD Pipeline on AWS EKS/Fargate with CDK

This project demonstrates a production-ready approach to deploying a containerized Quarkus API on AWS EKS/Fargate, leveraging Infrastructure as Code through the AWS CDK.

January 8, 2026

by Nicolas Duminil

CORE

· 2,322 Views · 1 Like

Automated Deployment Using a CI/CD Pipeline (Mule 4 | CloudHub 2.0)

This tutorial demonstrates automated deployment using a CI/CD pipeline with Mule 4. It shows how code pushed to a Git repository triggers deployment automatically.

January 7, 2026

by ARINDAM GOSWAMI

· 2,591 Views · 1 Like

Securing Verifiable Credentials With DPoP: A Spring Boot Implementation

DPoP binds access tokens to a client's key so even if intercepted, they can't be misused. It's mandatory for EUDI/HAIP 1.0 and supported since Spring Boot 3.5.

January 5, 2026

by Kyriakos Mandalas

CORE

· 3,879 Views · 4 Likes

How to Perform Response Verification in REST-Assured Java for API Testing

Explore the various methods for extracting and verifying the API response body using the Rest-Assured framework in Java for API Testing.

January 5, 2026

by Faisal Khatri

CORE

· 2,983 Views · 1 Like

Best Date Conversion Approaches in Java 8+

Java 8’s java.time API finally fixed the long-standing problems of Date and Calendar, but real applications still require constant conversion between time zones.

January 5, 2026

by Muhammed Harris Kodavath

· 2,953 Views · 2 Likes

Optimizing Java Applications for Arm64 in the Cloud

In the first part of this series, learn how to tune the JVM for cloud workloads, optimize heap sizing, CPU usage, and more for better Java performance.

December 26, 2025

by Dave Neary

· 3,775 Views · 6 Likes

Virtual Threads in JDK 21: Revolutionizing Java Multithreading

The introduction of Virtual Threads in JDK 21 represents a major milestone for Java’s concurrency ecosystem. Understand the basics and best practices in this article.

December 15, 2025

by Jiwan Gupta

· 3,231 Views

How to Test POST Requests With REST Assured Java for API Testing: Part II

In this second part, learn how to use JSON Files, the Builder design pattern with the Datafaker library in Java, to test a POST API Request with REST Assured.

December 12, 2025

by Faisal Khatri

CORE

· 2,143 Views · 4 Likes

Designing Java Web Services That Recover From Failure Instead of Breaking Under Load

Failures happen constantly in web backends. This article explains how to design Java services that recover quickly instead of breaking under load.

December 9, 2025

by Krishna Kandi

· 3,037 Views · 5 Likes

Stop Writing Excel Specs: A Markdown-First Approach to Enterprise Java

Shift design specs from Excel to Markdown and let AI generate Java while preventing drift and cutting development time by 55%.

December 3, 2025

by Dippu Kumar Singh

· 4,548 Views · 2 Likes

Web App Load Testing Using Maven Plugins for Apache JMeter, and Analyzing the Results

How to perform a complete load-testing with Java Maven and processing the performance metrics through a dedicated POM file

December 2, 2025

by Vincent DABURON

· 6,997 Views · 3 Likes

JDK 17 Memory Bloat in Containers: A Post-Mortem

Upgrading from JDK 8 to JDK 17 spiked container memory from ~50% to 100% due to excessive JVM threads, glibc malloc arenas, and G1GC native allocation.

December 2, 2025

by Saumya Tyagi

· 12,116 Views · 11 Likes

From Repetition to Reusability: How Maven Archetypes Save Time

Teaching teams to rely on Maven archetypes means less setup, fewer errors, and more time spent on solving real problems.

November 28, 2025

by Soham Sengupta

· 3,884 Views · 3 Likes

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