The HotSpot JVM comes with a range of non-standard -XX: options, many of which have an impact on performance. One set are the family of so-called AllocatePrefetch options comprising: -XX:AllocatePrefetchStyle, -XX:AllocatePrefetchStepSize, -XX:AllocatePrefetchLines, -XX:AllocatePrefetchInstr, -XX:AllocatePrefetchDistance and -XX:AllocateInstancePrefetchLines. In this blog post you’ll learn the background behind why AllocatePrefetch is necessary and how it can help performance.

Under the auspices of the Eclipse Foundation, the rebranding of the Java EE Guardians to the Jakarta EE Ambassadors has been completed. They were a driving force that ultimately led to Oracle open-sourcing Java EE and transferring ownership to the Eclipse Foundation. Reza Rahman, program manager, Java on Azure at Microsoft, spoke to InfoQ about this rebranding.

The resurgence of SQL-based data modeling is a something we should all be interested in. Here's why it's important.