On July 7th, 2011, eleven years ago, JDK 7 was released.  In some ways, it was one of the more significant releases of Java.  Indeed, there were some excellent technical features: Project Coin gave us things like try-with-resources, strings in switch and multi-catch.  However, it was two non-technical aspects of JDK 7 that made it important.  The first was that it was the …

As part of my new job on Apache APISIX, I write less Java and Kotlin code. And when I do, the code is really simple. My coding hours (unfortunately not days) involve: A lot of containerization, including Dockerfile, docker-compose.yml, and soon Kubernetes manifests Some Python for scripting jobs – I abandoned Kotlin Scripting for this A bit of Lua because …

Hi everyone, welcome back to the July update of Java on Azure Tooling. In this update, we will introduce the brand new getting started experience with the Azure toolkit for IntelliJ. In addition, we have added support for Managed Identity Authentication. Let’s see what these new features are. Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ Improvements New Guided Getting Started Experience In April’s …