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Software Architecture in the AI Era: What Doesn’t Change, What Does Taming AI Assistants: Practical Advice for Software Teams G1 GC Throughput Improvements: 5-15% Performance Gains with Dual Card Tables JFR Method Timing and Tracing: Deterministic Profiling Without Overhead Compact Object Headers: Reducing Java’s Memory Footprint by 22%
AI Architecture

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

2nd June 2026 Ionut Balosin
AI

Taming AI Assistants: Practical Advice for Software Teams

21st May 2026 Ionut Balosin
Java Performance

G1 GC Throughput Improvements: 5-15% Performance Gains with Dual Card Tables

19th May 2026 Ionut Balosin
Java Performance

JFR Method Timing and Tracing: Deterministic Profiling Without Overhead

5th May 2026 Ionut Balosin
Java Performance

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

13th April 2026 Ionut Balosin
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Software Architecture in the AI Era: What Doesn’t Change, What Does
AI Architecture
Software Architecture in the AI Era: What Doesn’t Change, What Does
Taming AI Assistants: Practical Advice for Software Teams
AI
Taming AI Assistants: Practical Advice for Software Teams
G1 GC Throughput Improvements: 5-15% Performance Gains with Dual Card Tables
Java Performance
G1 GC Throughput Improvements: 5-15% Performance Gains with Dual Card Tables
JFR Method Timing and Tracing: Deterministic Profiling Without Overhead
Java Performance
JFR Method Timing and Tracing: Deterministic Profiling Without Overhead
Performance
JVM Garbage Collectors Benchmarks for JDK 13
Performance
JVM JIT Compilers Benchmarks for JDK 12
Performance
Logging patterns and their performance impact
Performance
JVM JIT Compilers Benchmarks for JDK 13
Software Architecture in the AI Era: What Doesn’t Change, What Does
AI Architecture
Software Architecture in the AI Era: What Doesn’t Change, What Does
Taming AI Assistants: Practical Advice for Software Teams
AI
Taming AI Assistants: Practical Advice for Software Teams
G1 GC Throughput Improvements: 5-15% Performance Gains with Dual Card Tables
Java Performance
G1 GC Throughput Improvements: 5-15% Performance Gains with Dual Card Tables
JFR Method Timing and Tracing: Deterministic Profiling Without Overhead
Java Performance
JFR Method Timing and Tracing: Deterministic Profiling Without Overhead
Energy Efficiency

Analyzing JVM Energy Consumption for JDK 17: An Empirical Study

24th July 2023 Ionut Balosin

Content Introduction The importance of power consumption in modern computing Motivation Objectives Methodology Measurement Instruments RAPL Wall Power Meter RAPL vs. Wall Power Meter Measurement Considerations Unit of Measurement Hardware…

Performance

JVM Performance Comparison for JDK 17

20th March 2023 Ionut Balosin

Authors Ionut Balosin Website: www.ionutbalosin.com Twitter: @ionutbalosin Mastodon: ionutbalosin@mastodon.social Florin Blanaru Twitter: @gigiblender Mastodon: gigiblender@mastodon.online Content Context SetUp JIT Compilers Benchmarks Geometric Mean Miscellaneous Benchmarks Geometric Mean Garbage Collectors Overview…

Architecture

Just Enough Architectural Documentation

20th April 2022 Ionut Balosin

Content Intro Quality vs. Quantity Just Enough Context Diagram Software Diagram Deployment Diagram Architectural Decision Record Is there something else to consider? Why not use an architectural model? Further References…

Performance

Application / Dynamic Class Data Sharing In HotSpot JVM (OpenJDK 17)

2nd April 2022 Ionut Balosin

Content Intro Class Data Sharing (CDS) Archive footprint on disk Application Class Data Sharing (AppCDS) Shared base address Store interned strings Dynamic Class Data Sharing (Dynamic CDS) Base-layer dependency Create…

Architecture

Do we really need an ORM?

6th December 2021 Ionut Balosin

Content Motivation The perfect ORM is an illusion The benefits and drawbacks of using an ORM My experience My recommendation Motivation Nowadays, using an ORM (Object-Relational Mapping) is a low-hanging…

Java Performance

HotSpot JVM Performance Tuning Guidelines (OpenJDK 13)

7th January 2020 Ionut Balosin

Content Intro Memory Heap Off-Heap Metaspace CodeCache Direct Buffers ClassLoader Dynamic Class-Data Sharing Just-In-Time Compiler Tiered Mode: C1+C2 Graal JIT Threads Garbage Collectors Serial Garbage Collector Parallel Garbage Collector Concurrent…

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The inner workings of technical conferences

22nd December 2019 Ionut Balosin

Content Introduction Behind the selection process The feedback culture Speakers typologies Understanding the purpose of the conference Final thoughts Disclaimer About co-author Introduction In this blog post, David Leitner and…

Performance

JVM Garbage Collectors Benchmarks for JDK 13

14th December 2019 Ionut Balosin

Content Context SetUp A Bit of Theory Out of Scope Benchmarks Final Conclusions Further References Context The current article describes a series of Java Virtual Machine (JVM) Garbage Collectors (GC)…

Architecture

When do we need an architect

5th December 2019 Ionut Balosin

Content Key takeaways Type of projects that might need an architect Type of projects that might not necessarily need an architect Key takeaways the methodology, whatever that is (e.g. SCRUM,…

Performance

Logging patterns and their performance impact

21st November 2019 Ionut Balosin

Content Motivation Benchmark Conclusions Further Readings Motivation In the current post, I would like to explore different logging patterns and to identify which one is more efficient in terms of…

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