Bernard Traversat

Be part of the future of the Java Platform! We are hiring in the US, UK, Czech Republic and Singapore 😃 btratra.medium.com/be-part-of-the…

JEP 401: value objects moving to candidate :-) Value objects will enable a major step forward for Java. They give the JVM more freedom to reduce memory usage, GC pressure and model specialized numeric AI types with performance closer to primitive types. openjdk.org/jeps/401

The JVM C2 JIT continues to get faster. SIMD vectorization can make a significant difference through highly optimized intrinsics, C2 auto-vectorization to dynamically recognize ordinary Java loops, and the Vector API :-) youtube.com/watch?v=KpCz6U… "Java for the AI world" #java #AI

ZGC was built for terabyte-scale heap, memory efficiency, sub-millisecond latency—years before those requirements became mainstream. As AI and hyperscale services redefine computing, ZGC is powering the world's largest services. inside.java/2026/06/30/zgc… "Java for the AI world"

Immutable data is becoming a central design principle in modern Java. Features like lazy constants, record patterns and upcoming value classes are making it easier to build software that is safer and easier for frontier AI models to reason about :-) youtube.com/watch?v=BdLND9… #AI

Leyden and Helidon for startup and peak performance :-) medium.com/helidon/can-ja… "Java for the AI world" #java #startup #Leyden #Helidon #AI

VSCode Java Extension 26.0.0 is now available! Delivering an enhanced Java experience in VSCode. Improved configuration settings for JDK Home and Java Notebook, add support for a configurable settings.xml path for Maven projects. marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName… "Java for the AI world"

JDK 27 entered Rampdown One yesterday. It's all about stabilization from now through the September GA release! openjdk.org/projects/jdk/2… "Java for the AI world" #JDK27 #AI #openJDK

Project Leyden/AOT, ZGC, JIT for ultimate Java performance at Netflix :-) youtu.be/4kEh8hxAP4U?si… "Java for the AI world" #Java #Leyden #AI #ZGC #JIT

Debugging and monitoring your JVM with JFR and AI :-) youtube.com/watch?v=L5d966… "Java for the AI world" #java #JVM #AI #JFR #debugging

JVM's ZGC Generational and JIT pushing the performance limit 1.5 Million msg/s at P50 3.88 ms and P99.9 8ms latency! arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29113 "Java for the AI world" #Java #AI #ZGC #JIT

JDK 27 enters Rampdown Phase One next week on Thursday, 4 June 😃 Changes intended for JDK 27 should be in the main-line repository (github.com/openjdk/jdk) by 16:00 UTC on that day! "Java for the AI world" #JDK27 #OpenJDK

Project Panama FFM simpler, secure and efficient Java to/from native interoperability is enabling a number of innovations: Project Detroit for Python and JavaScript interoperability. Project Brisbane for FIPS-140 OpenSSL support. youtu.be/_4bEHwJ4Bdk?si… "Java for the AI world"

Java on the desktop with Swing youtu.be/ux1IpWo3oXA "Java for the AI World" #java #UI #AI #Swing

We contributed the source code for the OpenJDK Project Brisbane, a Java Cryptographic provider for FIPS 140 environments that is based on OpenSSL. Brisbane leverages Project Panama/FFM to implement the Java binding! github.com/openjdk/brisba… "Java for the AI world" #Java #AI #FIPS

Improved GC CPU profiling in JDK 26 with MemoryMXBean.getTotalGcCpuTime() to expose GC CPU cost as an observable metric :-) norlinder.nu/posts/GC-Cost-… "Java for the AI world" #Java #AI #GC #Profiling

Updated JEP Preview to allow pattern matching to use primitive types to provide easy-to-use constructs for data processing targeted to JDK 27 :-) openjdk.org/jeps/532 "Java for the AI world" #Java #AI #JDK27

This game is running on Java 👏 reddit.com/r/java/comment… youtube.com/watch?v=4FSX4D… "Java for the AI world"

JVM optimization isn’t an afterthought. It’s deliberately engineered. Through dynamic profiling and C2 JIT compilation, the JVM can make generic code perform close to specialized code! inside.java/2026/04/19/gen… "Java for the AI world" #Java #AI #JIT

New VSCode Java extension 25.1.0 available! Improve support for JDK 26, Java Notebook enhancements and bug fixes :-) marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName… "Java for the AI world" #java #IDE #VSCode