Month December 2025

AWS Control Tower 4.0: A New Look at Landing Zones

AWS Control Tower has long been the preferred solution for implementing governance based on AWS best practices, though it can be a controversial topic among SREs and Platform Engineers. With the release of Landing Zone 4.0, Control Tower takes a…

Caching with Redis: Boosting Application Performance

Caching with Redis: Boosting Application Performance In the world of software development, performance is paramount. Users expect applications to be fast, responsive, and reliable. One of the most effective techniques for achieving these goals is caching. This blog post will…

Thread Dumps and Project Loom (Virtual Threads)

If you’ve been keeping up with Java virtual threads, you already know that this hot new feature significantly improves hardware utilization for parallel I/O-bound operations. Virtual threads map multiple concurrent I/O operations to a single OS thread without blocking. The…

Top 3 Qodana 2025.3 Release Highlights 

Qodana 2025.3 delivers important new capabilities that help teams standardize their development practices, improve compliance, make audits easier, and simplify large-scale code analysis.  From introducing Global Project Configuration, a major step toward scalable, centralized policy management, to expanding license auditing…

Advent of Code in Rust: Winners and Highlights

Thank you to everyone who joined Advent of Code 2025 in Rust! It was inspiring to see many Rustaceans solving algorithmic puzzles, and celebrating the holiday coding season with the community. Before the Advent began, Vitaly Bragilevsky published a blog…