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A Concise Guide to Using Multiple Azure Storage Accounts from a Single Spring Boot Application

August 17, 2022 Aug 17, 2022 08/17/22
authorsHang Wang, Mark Heckler
Spring projects in general are opinionated: 80-90% of use cases are handled "by default", and code is often much more concise than would be required otherwise due to Spring's preference of convention over configuration. These and other "opinions" can result in dramatically less code to write and maintain and as a result, more focused impact...

Java on Azure Tooling Update – August 2022

August 17, 2022 Aug 17, 2022 08/17/22
Jialuo Gan
Hi everyone, welcome back to August update of Java on Azure Tooling. In this update, we will introduce the AKS support and Virtual Machine support. In addition, we make some improvements for users to search for subscriptions and find our tutorials easily. We hope these features could improve your user experience. So let us get started. ...

Debugging a JVM Crash for LinkedIn – Part 2

May 17, 2022 May 17, 2022 05/17/22
Brian Stafford
Introduction Welcome to Part 2 of our investigation into a JVM crash for LinkedIn. This blog post continues the investigation we began in Debugging a JVM Crash for LinkedIn - Part 1. In Part 1, we analyzed the HotSpot error log file to identify the instruction where the JVM crashed. As a reminder, this series is broken down as follows...

Debugging a JVM Crash for LinkedIn – Part 1

May 9, 2022 May 9, 2022 05/9/22
Brian Stafford
Introduction As part of the work we do in the Java Engineering Group we provide support to many first- and third-party customers of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, particularly those who run Java workloads on Azure. One of our largest customers is LinkedIn. In the past couple of years our group has worked with LinkedIn to assist with their...

Join us at Microsoft JDConf 2022

March 7, 2022 Mar 7, 2022 03/7/22
Nate Ceres
Join us for the second Microsoft JDConf event on May 4-5, 2022. JDConf is a virtual, Java focused conference where developers can come together to share interesting topics and stay engaged. Learn about the latest cloud development trends, best practices, tips, tricks, and more.

Additions and Updates to Microsoft Build of OpenJDK

February 2, 2022 Feb 2, 2022 02/2/22
Bruno Borges
Today we are excited to share two new additions to the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK family of LTS (Long Term Support) binaries: OpenJDK 11 and OpenJDK 17 binaries for Alpine Linux, and OpenJDK 11 for macOS on Apple Silicon. Other platforms have also been updated to the latest versions of OpenJDK following the tags 11.0.14 and 17.0.2. As ...

Announcing Microsoft Build of OpenJDK

April 6, 2021 Apr 6, 2021 04/6/21
Bruno Borges
Today we are excited to announce the preview of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, a new Long-Term Support (LTS) distribution of OpenJDK that is open source and available for free for anyone to deploy anywhere. It includes binaries for Java 11, based on OpenJDK 11.0.10, on x64 server and desktop environments on macOS, Linux, and Windows.

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