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Ionut Balosin @ionutbalosin.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Stop guessing with sampling profilers. 🎯 Java 25 (JEP 520) brings deterministic profiling directly to the JDK via JFR Method Timing & Tracing. No external agents needed. Deep dive into bytecode mechanics and overhead here: 👇 ionutbalosin.com/2026/05/jfr-... #Java #JDK25

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JFR Method Timing and Tracing: Deterministic Profiling Without Overhead – Ionut Balosin

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Ionut Balosin @ionutbalosin.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Compact Object Headers - Reducing Java's Memory Footprint 👉 ionutbalosin.com/2026/04/comp... #Java #JVM #JDK25 #Performance #OpenJDK

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Compact Object Headers: Reducing Java’s Memory Footprint by 22% – Ionut Balosin

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Ionut Balosin @ionutbalosin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

🎉 I am officially renewed as an Oracle ACE Associate for June 2026 - May 2027. Thank you to the Oracle community for this recognition. Looking forward to a new year of learning and knowledge sharing! 🚀 #OracleACE

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Ionut Balosin @ionutbalosin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

📝 New article: Software Architecture in the AI Era - What Doesn't Change, What Does. Capabilities vs. behaviour, why AI defaults to complexity, the PoC-to-production chasm, and the Agentic Mesh as a cross-cutting pattern. 🔗 ionutbalosin.com/2026/06/soft... #SoftwareArchitecture #AI #LLM

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Software Architecture in the AI Era: What Doesn’t Change, What Does – Ionut Balosin

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Ionut Balosin @ionutbalosin.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

After a year of daily AI-assisted coding, I wrote down what actually works — spec-driven dev, skills as guardrails, incremental verification, and the 4 gaps. ionutbalosin.com/2026/05/tami... AI is an amplifier. It magnifies discipline and chaos with equal enthusiasm. #AI #SoftwareEngineering

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Taming AI Assistants: Practical Advice for Software Teams – Ionut Balosin

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Ionut Balosin @ionutbalosin.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

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Taming AI Assistants: Practical Advice for Software Teams – Ionut Balosin

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Ionut Balosin @ionutbalosin.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Creativity and curiosity are becoming the main differentiators for software engineers in the AI era. It's less and less about technical depth.

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Ionut Balosin @ionutbalosin.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Conway’s Law has reflected organizational structures in software architecture for decades. Today, with AI and LLMs, organizations are changing to properly absorb them.

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Sharat (Shar) Chander - 🟦🌊 @sharatchander.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

📢#Java 25 is now available!📢 Your: ☕️ FREE ☕️ Multi-platform ☕️ Open source ☕️ Production ready ☕️ Binary release ...made available by @Oracle. Learn more ➡️ blogs.oracle.com/java/post/th... #Java25 #JDK25 #OpenJDK

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Ionut Balosin @ionutbalosin.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Wow, what a great Monday morning - what I once dreamed of has become reality today. I’m extremely honored to join the @java-champions.bsky.social program 🥳🎉 A huge thank you to everyone who voted for me, and especially to my nominator, @hansolo.eu 🙏 Thank you so much, #Java DevRel Team at #Oracle

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Ionut Balosin @ionutbalosin.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Happy to be eligible again for the Oracle ACE Program! Grateful for the recognition and ready for another year of sharing and community work. @oracleace.bsky.social #OracleACE

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Ionut Balosin @ionutbalosin.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

🔒 A practical guide to security testing for Java applications - with tools, examples, and commands. ✅ SCA ✅ SAST ✅ DAST ✅ Penetration Testing 👉 ionutbalosin.com/2025/03/secu... 📦 github.com/ionutbalosin... #Java #AppSec

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Security Application Testing for Java Developers – Ionut Balosin

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Ionut Balosin @ionutbalosin.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

🔒 Check out my article on "API Web Application Security for Java Developers". Discover essential mechanisms for securing APIs, authN, authZ, and improving the security of web your apps. 📖 Article: ionutbalosin.com/2025/03/api-... 💻 GitHub: github.com/ionutbalosin... #java #security

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Ionut Balosin @ionutbalosin.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

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Ionut Balosin @ionutbalosin.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

🎉 Java turns 30! Launched on May 23, 1995. ☕ #Java30 #HappyBirthdayJava

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Ionut Balosin @ionutbalosin.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Out of curiosity, I just searched for "#Java #performance #course" on both Google 🌐 and ChatGPT 🤖 — and my course popped up among the top results. Google ranked it 6th 🔥, and ChatGPT listed it 3rd 🚀. It’s a great feeling to see how it has grown in popularity within the #Java community ☕️.

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Jean-Philippe Bempel @jpbempel.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

TIL: since jdk22 you can use the JVM option -XX:LogClassLoadingCauseFor=com.mycompany.MyClass in conjunction with -Xlog:class+load+cause* to find out the stacktrace that triggers the load of the specify class. see github.com/openjdk/jdk/...

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8193513: add support for printing a stack trace on class loading by dougxc · Pull Request #14553 · openjdk/jdk

In the development of libgraal, it has been very useful to see why a given class is loaded (e.g., trying to reduce startup time by avoiding unnecessary eager class loading). One way to do this is t...

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Ionut Balosin @ionutbalosin.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Insightful session on advanced performance analysis with async-profiler, presented by Andrei Pangin. 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7-S... #Java #Performance #Profiling

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Advanced performance analysis with async-profiler by Andrei Pangin

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Ionut Balosin @ionutbalosin.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

🔐 How to #secure your #Java app? In this article, I cover #core #security #practices every #Java developer should know - from securing resources and validating input to encryption, hashing, secret management, logging, and safe deserialization. 👉 ionutbalosin.com/2025/03/core... #Java #Security

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Core Application Security for Java Developers – Ionut Balosin

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Ionut Balosin @ionutbalosin.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

🎥 Curious how Netflix scales its backend? @pbakker.bsky.social shares insights into Netflix’s architecture and how they use #Java www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpun...

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How Netflix Uses Java - 2025 Edition

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Ionut Balosin @ionutbalosin.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

🚀 Our talk "Unlocking the Unknowns: #Cryptography #Essentials for #Java Devs" with @laurspilca.bsky.social is now online! 🎥 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqQ2... 📂 Code: github.com/ionutbalosin... 📑 Slides: ionutbalosin.com/wp-content/u... Enjoy!

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[VDBUH2025] Laurențiu Spilcă & Ionuț Baloșin - Unlocking the unknowns: Cryptography Essentials

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Ionut Balosin @ionutbalosin.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

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[VDBUH2025] Laurențiu Spilcă & Ionuț Baloșin - Unlocking the unknowns: Cryptography Essentials

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Jean-Philippe Bempel @jpbempel.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

🇫🇷 Merci d'être venu aussi nombreux dans l'amphi bleu à #DevoxxFrance @devoxx.fr ! voici mes slides pour la session comment debugger en production ! ginnieandfifounet.com/jpb/slides/P...

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Ionut Balosin @ionutbalosin.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

🚀 Just updated my well-starred Java eCommerce Application! 🧱 Examples of: - Hexagonal & event-driven microservices - Perf, scalability & resiliency tactics - REST, schema-first, async logging, caching & more Check it out 👉 github.com/ionutbalosin... #Java #Architecture #Microservices #OpenSource

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Ionut Balosin @ionutbalosin.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Top-notch talks this evening at the Java Meetup #Vienna with talks by @chumer.dev and @hansolo.eu on Truffle Metacompilation and JVM Memory Management 🚀

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Christian Humer @chumer.dev · 02/04/2025

Next Monday, join me at the Java Meetup Vienna for a dive into Truffle! Discover how writing an interpreter in Java lands you a compiler for free. Besides free compilers there is also free pizza and beer... www.meetup.com/java-vienna/...

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"Truffle Meta Compilation in Action" + "Exploring JVM Memory Management", Mon, Apr 7, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Agenda 18:00 doors open 18:20 welcome 18:30 **Truffle Metacompilation in Action** - *Christian Humer* 19:30 break 19:55 raffle 20:00 **Trash Talk - Exploring the JVM memor

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Thomas Wuerthinger @thomaswue.dev · 18/03/2025

Interesting comparison of startup and memory footprint of @graalvm.org native image vs Leyden early access build. We have btw also work underway that will allow arbitrary class loading by adding a Java interpreter to your native image. github.com/simonis/Leyd...

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GitHub - simonis/LeydenVsGraalNative: Benchmarks, data and scripts for comparing Leyden with Graal Native Image

Benchmarks, data and scripts for comparing Leyden with Graal Native Image - simonis/LeydenVsGraalNative

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Ionut Balosin @ionutbalosin.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Thank you to everyone who attended our session Unlocking the Unknowns: Cryptography Essentials for Java Devs 🚀, co-presented with top security expert @laurspilca.bsky.social at Voxxed Bucharest 📑 Slides: ionutbalosin.com/wp-content/u... Big thanks to organizers 🙌 Ghibutiu Andra and Alex Proca🎉👏

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Oracle ACE Program @oracleace.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Thank you for a great event, Voxxed Days Bucharest! Great energy, amazing speakers, a lot of engaged developers, networking, and lots of ACE swag! ♠️😍 @ionutbalosin.bsky.social @martinelli.ch #OracleACE

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Ionut Balosin @ionutbalosin.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Looking forward to hearing the trashtalk by @hansolo.eu

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Ionut Balosin @ionutbalosin.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

🚀 New article: Strengthen your Java app's security with API authentication, CSP, CORS, and HTTP security headers. Dive into this comprehensive guide for Java developers: API Web Application Security ionutbalosin.com/2025/03/api-... #Java #Security #APIsecurity

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Ionut Balosin @ionutbalosin.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

🚀 New article: Core Application Security for Java Developers 🔒 Content: securing resource access, input validation, encryption, hashing, secrets management, logging, and deserialization vulnerabilities. 📚💻 Check it out: ionutbalosin.com/2025/03/core... #Java #Security

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Core Application Security for Java Developers

Content Securing Resource Access via UUIDs How to Generate UUIDs Input Data Validation and Sanitization Validation Techniques Sanitization Techniques Handling Input Files from Public Sources or Extern...

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