Advent of Code 2024 – Day 7 – Bridge Repair

Java 18 is released, and the new JDK will bring a lot of interesting features to java. We go through all the features in 18 and talk about the performance benefits and some important caviats to keep track on in your code.

We look closer at an encryption algorithm used in communication today in order to establish secrets at two endpoints.

In this video I’ll compare different JDKs and look at their performance depending on if they are containerized or run locally. We will compare oracle, apache, libertica and graal JDKs.

I’m trying to solve all the Advent of Code puzzles in this video series.