Best of Awesome Java Newsletter — April 2025

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   Understanding concepts in Event Driven Architectures (EDA)

   Event Driven Architecture (EDA) is a popular choice for developing highly scalable distributed systems, where components communicate by sending and reacting to events asynchronously. Key components include event producers, message brokers, and event consumers. Common technologies used are Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SNS/SQS, and Google Pub/Sub. EDA offers advantages such as scalability, flexibility, and resilience, but also has challenges like eventual consistency and complex debugging.

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   Java is dying and it paid off my mortgage

   Moving from the MERN stack to Java, the author feared that working with an 'outdated' language would limit their career prospects. Despite concerns about its dwindling popularity, Java provided stable and high-paying job opportunities that ultimately allowed the author to buy a house. This experience highlighted that mature, less-hyped technologies can still offer rewarding career paths and financial stability.

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   Project Loom: Structured Concurrency in Java

   Project Loom aims to simplify writing concurrent code in Java through structured concurrency. It introduces structured task scopes to manage concurrency and prevent issues such as thread leaks and resource starvation. By using structured concurrency, the syntactic structure of the code reflects the semantic structure, ensuring that parent-child relationships in threads are properly maintained. This leads to more readable and maintainable concurrent code. Java's existing tools like virtual threads and structured concurrency primitives are discussed, along with examples of setting up and running concurrent tasks efficiently.

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   Go's HTTP Server Patterns in Java 25

   This post provides a step-by-step guide to implement a simple web server using Java 25, inspired by patterns from Go's HTTP server. It covers creating and managing wiki pages, using Java's jdk.httpserver module, and integrating templating for HTML content. It also recommends various libraries for handling HTTP requests and templates.

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