July, 2022

• 25 July

  Released: OpenJDK 18.0.2, 17.0.4, 15.0.8, 13.0.12, 11.0.16, 8u342

  Java has regular patch and security updates that are co-ordinated across the community, they happen once per quarter. When these updates happen, there are fixes including security issues that are addressed, all of which are displayed on Foojay.io. The next quarterly release of the OpenJDK has been made available, as scheduled, for July 2022, impacting a number of OpenJDK releases. …

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• 22 July

  The Cost of Production Blindness

  When I speak at conferences, I often fall back to the fact that just a couple of decades ago we’d observe production by kicking the server. This is obviously no longer practical. We can’t see our production. It’s an amorphous Cloud that we can’t touch or feel. A power that we read about but don’t fully grasp. In this case, …

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• 21 July

  Kubernetes and the Data Centre: Is Full Scale Migration Possible?

  Data centres used to be exactly that – the centres of our data worlds, where all information, files and records would be kept and controlled. Today, that is no longer the case. More companies are moving to cloud services, whether this is dialling down on their traditional on-premises environments or never setting them up in the first place. This is …

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• 21 July

  General Build Distribution: A Game-Changer or a Gimmick?

  Understand the performance potential of remote and distributed builds and explore how to improve build feedback times. The Remote and Distributed Build Patterns article explains the differences between remote and distributed builds and variations on each. Specifically, we distinguished between “test distribution” and “general build distribution”. This article discusses distributed builds in a broader perspective of improving build feedback times. …

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• 19 July

  Why a Cloud-Native Database Must Run on K8s

  We’ve been talking about migrating workloads to the cloud for a long time, but a look at the application portfolios of many IT organizations demonstrates that there’s still a lot of work to be done. In many cases, challenges with persisting and moving data in clouds continue to be the key limiting factor slowing cloud adoption, despite the fact that …

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• 19 July

  NLJUG VLOG: Flutter bij Ordina

  

  In dit nieuwe concept gaan we langs bij onze business partners om een Java gerelateerd onderwerp uit te diepen. Voor deze tweede editie zijn we langs geweest bij Ordina om te praten over Flutter. Veel plezier! 

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• 19 July

  Java Magazine #2 2022: Java 18 is here!

  

  Dit zou geen Java Magazine zijn zonder diepgaande tech artikelen vanuit onze community. Lees onder andere meer over de nieuwe features van Java 18, iRules op de JVM, Unit tests met Groovy en Spock en hoe je als Javaan het best aan de slag kan gaan met Kotlin. Maar je vindt dit keer ook artikelen met minder code zoals bijvoorbeeld …

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• 19 July

  Java Magazine #1 2022: De buren van Java

  

  We willen je helpen de kansen van het nieuwe jaar te benutten. Ditmaal niet enkel met deep dives in Java, maar met uitstapjes naar verwante programmeertalen die jou als Javaan helpen je portfolio uit te breiden. Zo hebben we artikelen over React Hooks in JavaScript, Kotlin DSL’s & coroutines, SQL code testen en een Rust introductie. Voor ieder wat wils! …

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• 19 July

  Remote and Distributed Build Patterns

  Remote and distributed builds are terms frequently used, misused and abused. Here we share insight for what these terms mean and how they affect your build feedback times. A frequently-requested feature for the Gradle Build Tool is the ability to perform remote or distributed builds. But what exactly does this mean? And what are the motivations behind the requests? This …

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• 19 July

  J-Fall Call for Papers has opened!

  

  The Call for Papers application for the biggest Java event of the Netherlands is open! For J-Fall 2022 we will use a sessionize Call for Papers app. Do you have a interesting Java-related story that you would like to share with your fellow NLJUG members? Then submit your paper now. That way we will produce the best possible program by …

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