Until yesterday I believed that mocking static methods was evil. Now I know that one can also mock... constructors 🫠 baeldung.com/java-mockito-m…

So I'm not a big fan of JUnit's MethodSource, it moves test arguments too far out of sight for my taste. CsvSource is pretty sweet though, in particular with text blocks. Nice intro, by Mike Kowalski 👍. 👉 mikemybytes.com/2021/10/19/par…

Nice recap of different multithreading programming strategies available in Java with their respective goals and features #Devoxx

How to say “we don’t trust our tests and engineering practices” in a corporate way

Same here! Great readability & powerful API

#Java Time Tip: Watch out for equals() vs isEqual() in date-time classes! ZonedDateTime, OffsetDateTime, and OffsetTime behave different: equals(): Compares all fields (including zone/offset) isEqual(): Compares instants (ignoring zone/offset) Same moment, different result

My open source library - Spring Boot & wiremock integration has been adopted by WireMock and is now THE official integration for these two projects: github.com/wiremock/wirem…

🥳 JEP proposed to target JDK 24: 450: Compact Object Headers (Experimental) 🎉 mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/jdk-…

I can’t remember the last time I was so excited about one of my articles becoming obsolete! mikemybytes.com/2024/02/28/cur…

We're coming towards the end of #AWSreinvent 2024 and we've seen an impressive set of releases, so here is my top 10 announcements I find most impactful for this years #AWS re:Invent.

Making a bigger impact without working more? Last year, I discovered that it's not only possible but also effective. It was a year of scaling myself. mikemybytes.com/2025/02/05/a-y…

"Immutability makes code more reasonable" 💯

Java thread pinning detection using JFR Event Streaming with Spring Boot github.com/mikemybytes/jf… Mike Kowalski

Prescription without diagnosis is malpractice. It applies to medicine, coaching, and software architecture 🧑‍⚕️

📢 New post: #Java 24 - Thread pinning revisited I don't remember being so excited about some of my past articles becoming obsolete! mikemybytes.com/2025/04/09/jav…

Testcontainers is one of a few technologies that have truly revolutionised the way I work. Thank you and happy birthday!

Excellent ZGC deep dive 🤿

Apache Kafka Apache Kafka 4.0 says goodbye to ZooKeeper! Take a look at what other important changes it brings. softwaremill.com/apache-kafka-4…

We are working on a new big project for @GraalVM — Project Crema: github.com/oracle/graal/i…. It will lift Native Image's default closed-world assumption by allowing dynamic loading and execution of classes at run time. Stay tuned for updates!

github.com/apple/containe… This is interesting! Not only for containers, it also allows spawning lightweight virtual machines 👀 And it being OSS adds to the news 🔥