Morphium 6.2.4 — When Messaging Dies Quietly

Morphium 6.2.4 is out. The reason behind it was a bug that took longer to find than to fix. In production, messaging suddenly stopped. The backlog grew. The log said nothing. Only the 10-second fallback poll kept the application half-alive. This is what we learned about producer/consumer architecture, silent `Error`s, and the hard 16 MB BSON limit, and the five layers of protection that came out of it.

Morphium 6.2.2 — Bugfix Release with PoppyDB Hardening and Performance

Morphium 6.2.2 is here — a focused bugfix release that makes PoppyDB significantly more stable. Wire protocol corruption, thread leaks with 20,000 threads per node, and Raft election flapping are fixed. Plus: 4.7x faster startup via ClassGraph caching and PoppyDB is now 3x faster than MongoDB for individual operations.

Morphium 6.2.1 — A Bugfix Release That Packs a Punch

Morphium 6.2.1 is out — and while it's officially a bugfix release, there's considerably more inside than the version number suggests. ByteBuddy replaces spring-cglib, PoppyDB gets a stability overhaul, and the wire protocol is now much more robust against connection chaos.

PoppyDB — A MongoDB-Compatible In-Memory Server

PoppyDB — a lightweight, MongoDB-compatible in-memory server. Perfect as a test backend, as a messaging solution without MongoDB, or for quick prototyping. Now available as a standalone Maven module — with built-in snapshot persistence.

Morphium 6.2.0 — What's New?

Morphium 6.2.0 — What's New?

After months of work, Morphium 6.2.0 is ready. This release brings some fundamental changes — most notably the extraction of PoppyDB as a standalone module. But let's go through it step by step.

Multi-Module M

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