September, 2023

• 6 September

  Load Testing: Shoot Your Application With Gatling

  What is load testing? Load testing entails testing how our application performs under a significant load so we can be certain it behaves as expected when there’s an influx of users. Or at least so we know what it can cope it, and at what point we might potentially need to take action. After all, it might not (only) be …

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• 6 September

  Ops friendly Apache APISIX

  Though I always worked on the Dev side of IT, I was also interested in the Ops side. I even had a short experience being a WebSphere admin: I used it several times, helping Ops deal with the Admin console while being a developer. Providing a single package that Ops can configure and deploy in different environments is very important. …

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• 5 September

  OpenRewrite: Automatic Code Refactoring and Maintenance

  As software engineers and architects, we often face the challenge of upgrading dependencies, security patches, and framework upgrades to the latest versions. Enterprise organizations often have legacy code developed and maintained for a long time. Updating dependency versions in the build file in many build files in the software projects, and implementing large framework upgrades can be a daunting task …

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• 5 September

  JUGPH: Continuing the Connection with the Java Enthusiasts

  Continuing the connection with the Java Enthusiasts and the efforts of Java User Group Philippines (JUG PH), we finished our 2nd and 3rd meetup last June and August 2023. This is the JUG PH Continuation Report of the revitalized report here: https://foojay.io/today/java-user-group-ph-report-2023/. The speakers of these meetups were composed of Tristan Mahinay, the JUG PH Leader and Yee Kang Chang, …

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• 4 September

  Foojay Podcast #27: Chicago JUG and KUG

  Since December last year, the Foojay podcast virtually visited a Java User Group monthly. This journey has already brought us to many places around the world. And this time, we are in Chicago to learn from the Java and Kotlin user groups. Guests Mary Grygleski https://foojay.social/@mgrygles https://twitter.com/mgrygles John Burns https://bigshoulders.city/@wakingrufus https://twitter.com/wakingrufus Podcast Host: Frank Delporte https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte https://twitter.com/FrankDelporte Links Chicago JUG …

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• 1 September

  Unlocking Java Wisdom: A Conversation with Oracle ACE Simon Martinelli

  In a recent insightful interview, Simon Martinelli, an Oracle ACE associate and veteran Java developer, shares his career experiences, software development philosophies, and views on mentoring. With over two decades in the industry, Martinelli offers a perspective that combines the wisdom of experience with a focus on simplicity and constant learning. Profiles: Homepage: martinelli.ch LinkedIn: Simon Martinelli on LinkedIn Twitter: …

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• 1 September

  Book review: “OpenJDK Migration for Dummies”

  In the past couple of years, there have been quite a lot of Oracle Java licensing changes which can have quite the impact on how much using the Oracle JDK will cost your organization, especially since under the latest terms it’s quite easy to have a “rogue” install cost you quite a bit. This is where the new free book …

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• 1 September

  It’s 2AM Do you Know What Your Code is Doing?

  Observability isn’t Pillars Tracing and OpenTelemetry Background Developer Observability Enough Exposition How Does This Help at 2AM? Final Word Once we press the merge button, that code is no longer our responsibility. If it performs sub-optimally or has a bug, it is now the problem of the DevOps team, the SRE, etc. Unfortunately, those teams work with a different toolset. …

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August, 2023

• 31 August

  JavaFX Links of August 2023

  I’ve taken a holiday this month, so probably missed a lot of the amazing JavaFX news, but still some things caught my attention and you can find them in this LinksOfTheMonth overview. But the most essential and thrilling news is the release of the new version of jfx-central.com! A complete new home for “all things JavaFX” thanks to the amazing …

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• 31 August

  Azul Enhances ReadyNow to Solve Java’s Warmup Problem, Simplify Operations, and Optimize Cloud Costs

  Azul Platform Prime’s ReadyNow technology continuously learns from application usage across fleets of Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) and automatically selects the best warmup optimization patterns. ReadyNow Orchestrator delivers the highest possible optimized code speed at warmup while making deployment easier for containerized Java workloads and CI/CD pipelines, and requires no changes to Java applications. The combination of ReadyNow and ReadyNow …

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