January, 2024

• 23 January

  Stepping in 2024 with Powerful Java Language Features

  

  Whether you are a beginner or senior Java developer, you strive to accomplish ambitious goals through your code while enjoying incremental progress. Along with many performance, stability, and security updates, Java 21 delivers new features and enhancements aiming to boost Java development productivity. And the best way to learn these language features is by using them in a Java project. …

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• 22 January

  Controlling LED Strips with Java and JBang

  One of the most “fancy” electronic components is definitely… a LED strip. It’s really cool to control a long strip of lights with only a few lines of code. But, there is a problem. The timing of the signals is crucial to reliably control these strips. Both Python and Java on a Raspberry Pi can struggle with these timings as …

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• 22 January

  API Versioning

  In my previous article Evolving your APIs, I mention the main API versioning approaches. During the talk of the same name, I sometimes get some questions on the subject. In this article, I’ll detail each of them. I assume readers know the reasons behind versioning, semantic versioning, and product lifecycle. If not, I encourage you to read a bit about …

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• 19 January

  Soft Assertions – testing kindly

  Given it’s the advent of a new year, I thought let’s start with something nice and fun that can make live more enjoyable for everyone. As developers, we write testcases all the time to help us in our development process, and to help us detect potential regressions in the future. Now ideally we want our testcases to be as efficient …

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• 18 January

  Hello eBPF: Recording data in basic eBPF maps (2)

  Welcome back to my article series on eBPF. Last week, I introduced eBPF, the series, and the project and showed how you can write a simple eBPF application with Java that prints “Hello World!” whenever a process calls execve: public class HelloWorld { public static void main(String[] args) { try (BPF b = BPF.builder(“”” int hello(void *ctx) { bpf_trace_printk(“Hello, World!”); …

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• 17 January

  A Day in the Life of a Software Engineer in a Scrum Team Part-2

  Welcome back to the journey through the world of Scrum! If you’ve read Part 1, you’re already familiar with the basics of Scrum and how it can help teams manage their work efficiently. Now, let’s dive deeper and explore a day in the life of Alex, a software engineer in a Payment Scrum Team. Alex is part of an elite …

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• 17 January

  Payara Platform Roadmap 2024

  Now that New Year is here, we reflect on 2023 and look ahead to what you can expect from our entire suite of Payara products in 2024. What is the future for Payara Community, Enterprise and Payara Cloud? Read below to find out more about Payara Rodmap in the coming months –  Java 21 compatibility, the upcoming Jakarta EE 11 …

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• 16 January

  Where do you get your Java?

  Today’s Java is vastly different, although it is still true to its root principles of robustness, portability, and ease of programming. Your options for where to get your Java have similarly evolved. If you download Java directly, you might think that you can only get an official version from Oracle. This is no longer the case. In fact, there are …

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• 16 January

  2023 in Retrospective

  Last year, I wrote my first yearly retrospective. I liked the experience, so I’m trying one more time. Let the future decide if it will become a trend or not. Before diving into our safe technological world, my thoughts go to Ukraine, to my friends who had to flee their own country, to other friends who fought on the front …

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• 16 January

  2023 Software Conferences in the Philippines

  In the last months of 2023, technical conferences took place in the Philippines focusing on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud Computing, Java, Open-source and Data related topics. The Philippine Java Community were involved in two big conferences namely, Software Conference Philippines and Samsung Open Source Conference. Conferences Members of the Foojay community were included as the speakers of the conferences, including …

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