See how it actually works.
Run real code. Watch the figure react. Keep one picture per concept, the one you'll redraw in the interview.
Dive in
OPEN
Memory & references
The call stack
How Java runs
OPEN
Strings & the pool
Exceptions & unwinding
Garbage collection
Threads & the scheduler
volatile & the memory model
Proxies & @Transactional
Kafka: the log
Plus 33 more figures in the pipeline. Every one built like the first: run it, watch it, keep the picture.