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Java 8 Is Over a Decade Old and It's Running Everything in Production
Stream API. Lambdas. Optional. The Date/Time API. Java 8 was a genuine revolution that the Java community still hasn't fully absorbed. And yes, it's running in more production systems than you'd like to admit.
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