Shaun Smith

@shaunmsmith
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Leading GraalVM Product Management at Oracle Labs. Views expressed are my own.
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How to setup #Maven, the Failsafe and the @graalvm plugins for use with #Testcontainers to run your integration tests against containers in native image mode…

https://info.michael-simons.eu/2023/10/25/run-your-integration-tests-against-testcontainers-with-graalvm-native-image/

#Java #Testing #NativeImage #Neo4j

Run your integration tests against Testcontainers with GraalVM native image – info.michael-simons.eu

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Big news from last week's @graalvm for Java 21 release was that we can finally demonstrate that AOT (with profile-guided optimizations) can outperform JIT for all major metrics including throughput! Here are the numbers for the Spring PetClinic example (both G1 GC). 🚀

Call for participation – GraalVM Community Meetup: https://graalvm.org/community/meetup/
Join us to help shape the future of GraalVM!

🗓 September 26–27, 2023
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GraalVM is an advanced JDK with ahead-of-time Native Image compilation.

Released 43 years ago today

Closer, the second album by Joy Division, including this track "Isolation".

#punkrockhistory

The #JUnit team will be meeting in person in two weeks in Zurich, Switzerland. You can meet us in person at @jugch on April 12. See you there? https://www.jug.ch/html/events/2023/meet_the_junit-team.html
Java User Group Switzerland: Event "Meet the JUnit Team in Person!   "

More than five years have passed since the initial release of JUnit 5 in 2017. But the JUnit team hasn’t ceased working since then. On the contrary, there have been 9 additional 5.x releases. After a concise introduction, we’ll take a closer look at the latest new features such as:

Did you know that the Spring team involvement in @graalvm benefits to the whole JVM community? With 55 PRs out of a total of 88, we are by far the #1 contributor to the reachability metadata which provides native configuration to the JVM ecosystem. https://github.com/oracle/graalvm-reachability-metadata
GitHub - oracle/graalvm-reachability-metadata: Repository which contains community-driven collection of GraalVM reachability metadata for open-source libraries.

Repository which contains community-driven collection of GraalVM reachability metadata for open-source libraries. - oracle/graalvm-reachability-metadata

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My kids are watching this classic scene from Sesame Street and are just as confused as the Yip Yips. They have absolutely no conception of what this thing is. The humor of the scene has truly come full circle.
Thank you for being a part of the @graalvm community!
Here are our highlights of the year: https://medium.com/graalvm/graalvm-in-2022-a-year-in-review-57679af9c55e 🎄
GraalVM in 2022: a year in review - graalvm - Medium

2022 was a very productive year for the GraalVM project and community. Together, we developed many new features, released GraalVM for the latest Java versions and new platforms, and saw several new…

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Terry Hall's voice and music are forever part of the soundtrack of my life. The Specials introduced me to Ska and it blew my young mind when I first heard Terry singing 'Do the Dog'.

https://youtu.be/PquxnJkAeAk
#RIPTerryHall

https://twitter.com/thespecials/status/1604969543184564234?t=-qeMUKTfc10ihcSuH4Nk8A&s=19

The Specials - Do the dog (1980 live) HD

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