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March 1, 2026

Welcome to Arkstack — JVM Performance, Off-heap Memory & Low-Latency Architecture

Arkstack.dev is an engineering blog focused on JVM Performance Tuning, Low-Latency Java Architecture, Off-heap Memory Management, and Legacy System Modernization. Built by an engineer who fights the GC for a living.

March 4, 2026

Why I Banned ThreadLocal from the Exeris Kernel (And What Replaced It)

In a zero-copy runtime designed for 1-VT-per-Stream density, ThreadLocal is a performance serial killer. Here is the forensic analysis and how JEP 506 Scoped Values changed everything.

March 21, 2026

Reevaluating 1990s OOP in Java: DOP, Scoped Values, and Loom in 2026

A pragmatic look at how Data-Oriented Programming and modern JDK primitives can reduce the abstraction tax of traditional GoF patterns in closed-domain systems.

April 7, 2026

StructuredTaskScope beyond toy examples: dependency-aware kernel bootstrap in modern Java

Why StructuredTaskScope fit my subsystem startup orchestration better than futures or thread pools — and why I still kept part of bootstrap strictly sequential.

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Welcome to Arkstack — JVM Performance, Off-heap Memory & Low-Latency Architecture

Why I Banned ThreadLocal from the Exeris Kernel (And What Replaced It)

Reevaluating 1990s OOP in Java: DOP, Scoped Values, and Loom in 2026

StructuredTaskScope beyond toy examples: dependency-aware kernel bootstrap in modern Java