https://devops-monk.com/tags/lambdas/Recent content in Lambdas on Devops MonkHugoen-usMon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://devops-monk.com/tutorials/java8/java8-overview/Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://devops-monk.com/tutorials/java8/java8-overview/Why Java 8 Matters Java 8 was released on 18 March 2014 — nearly three years after Java 7 — and it changed Java more fundamentally than any release before or since. For the first time, Java developers could write functional-style code natively, without external libraries or workarounds. The headline features — lambda expressions and the Streams API — solved a problem that had frustrated Java developers for years: the verbosity of iteration.