High-Performance Java Persistence Newsletter, Issue 44

Imagine having a tool that can automatically detect JPA and Hibernate performance issues. Wouldn’t that be just awesome?

Well, Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool! And it works with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Quarkus, or Play Framework.

So, enjoy spending your time on the things you love rather than fixing performance issues in your production system on a Saturday night!

Introduction

Welcome to a new issue of the High-Performance Java Persistence Newsletter in which we share articles, videos, workshops, and StackOverflow answers that are very relevant to any developer who interacts with a database system using Java.

Articles

The pick of this edition is this article about the high-performance queuing design employed by Shopify to scale Flash Sales.

Related to high-performance database systems, I also wrote two articles about YugabyteDB:

Another very good article is this one about how the Spring framework is going to embrace Loom Virtual Threads.

Related to Spring, you may also like this article about building your own Spring Data base Repository that avoids dangerous methods, such as findAll or deleteAllInBatch.

Another article I enjoyed reading is this one about the accidental complexity of jumping to cloud computing. Keeping it simple is the best way to go in the vast majority of use cases.

If you are using PostgreSQL, you may want to read this article about speeding up ORDER By queries.

Videos

I uploaded a new video on YouTube about the best way to fetch SQL query projections using JPA:

This video is part of my High-Performance SQL video course, so if you like this episode, you are going to love the video course.

Best Tweets

Here are the best tweets I posted since the last newsletter:

Project Releases

MySQL 8.0.31 has been released, and it introduces some query parsing optimizations.

The MySQL JDBC Driver also released its 8.0.31, and a change that’s worth mentioning is that the Maven dependency is now com.mysql.mysql-connector-j.

The 2.20 version of the Hibernate Types OSS project has been released, and it provides support for mapping Set collections to DB arrays, as well as several enhancements to the MonetaryAmmount and Range types.

Hibernate ORM has released several new versions for the 6.1 branch:

Get in touch with my latest articles!

StackOverflow Answers

The following StackOverflow answers have been trending since the last newsletter episode:

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