Nobody files a ticket that says “our architecture has an abstraction problem.” They file tickets saying the data is wrong, or ...

Project Valhalla's JEP 401 will bring value classes to JDK 28, removing object identity from Java types in a 197,000-line change twelve years in the making ...

As our economy, society and daily life become increasingly dependent on data, new college graduates entering the workforce need to have the skills to analyze data effectively and from multiple angles.

Creating simple data classes in Java traditionally required substantial boilerplate code. Consider how we would represent Java’s mascots, Duke and Juggy: public class JavaMascot { private final String ...

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I'd like to add dictionary encoded values to the Avro adapter and get them working for a full round trip with both schema and data. I'm doing some (unrelated) work on dictionary encoded values atm so ...

A data dictionary is like a bill of materials for a database; it lists all database components, including reports, tables, field names and field types. Such information helps audit databases for ...