Last year was my first year blogging, speaking at conferences, meeting incredible people, and seeing places I’ve never been before. It was at times quite arduous but at the same time energizing, as you can read in my post Looking back on one year of speaking and blogging. I didn’t want it to be a one-off year, so I dutifully …

Once in a while, I write non-technical blog posts when I’ve something worth sharing. Today, I’d like to write about my North America “Tour” across several conferences and user groups. The first leg of my journey started in Oakland, California, with Developer Week. Developer Week is an established conference with different editions in several locations and online during the year. …

As a developer and architect, my constant pursuit is to achieve simplicity and elegance when constructing resilient and intricate enterprise applications. With my affinity for the Spring Framework, I have witnessed firsthand the simplicity and modernization it brings to the Spring Ecosystem. This framework enables the creation of complex enterprise applications in a more streamlined and refined manner, boasting a …

FEPCOS-J prototypically implements a Java language extension that allows the realization of a multithreaded TCP/IP server in Java without thread or network programming. Please help me to make FEPCOS-J a Free/Libre and Open-Source Software (FLOSS). Introduction FEPCOS-J [1] is a Java development tool that prototypes a Java language extension for declarative programming of networked systems. See my previous posts for …

Does anyone else ever feel overwhelmed by Spring Boot? With a rich set of options and eco-system libraries on the one hand, and a very opinionated framework on the other, I often spend considerable time deciphering the “Spring Way” of doing things. I’ve been working with Spring Boot for over three years, yet there are moments when I sense I’m …

Ever wondered if AI can localize an entire project? In this article, we follow the process end-to-end using the Spring Petclinic as an example. We prepare the project for localization, automate the translation using Python and DeepL, and analyze the results Whether you are thinking of localizing your project or just learning how to do that, AI might help you. …

Welcome back to my article series on eBPF. Some weeks ago, I got started in using libbpf instead of libbcc. This week, I show you how to use ring buffers, port the code from Ansil H’s blog post eBPF for Linux Admins: Part IX from C to Java, and add tests to the underlying map implementation. My libbpf-based implementation advances …

Java 22 is here! It’s been six months since Java 21 was released, so it’s time for another fresh set of Java features. In this article, you’ll go on a tour of the JEPs that are part of this release, giving you a brief introduction to each of them. Where applicable, the differences with Java 21 are highlighted and a …

As soon as Java 22 is out, it’ll be time to walk through all the functionalities that this version bring to us as developers. JEP 461 – Stream Gatherers (Preview) Enhances the Stream API with support for custom intermediate operations. This is a preview API. The Stream API provides a fixed set of intermediate and terminal operations. It allows terminal …

Last September, we got Java 21, a Long Term Support (LTS) version with eight new big features and seven incubator or preview features. Does Java 22 also bring that much innovation, or is it just a bug-fix release? And what needs to be done to get such a release published on time? Let’s find out… Video Podcast (audio only) Speakers …