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Hi! Is anyone interested in one of these books? If so please follow/retweet and tell me which book. Thanx!…
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What is Groovy and why should I care?
Hello again, it's me, Adam. Earlier this year, I finished my self-published book, Learning Groovy,…
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Just a reminder: Oracle plans to stop updating Java 7 in April of this year (next month).
As outlined in the Oracle JDK Support Roadmap, after April 2015, Oracle will not post further updates of Java SE 7 to its public download sites.
This might be a good time to read …
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There’s a hot new programming language that I’m excited about. It can be used dynamically or statically-typed, your choice. It supports functional programming constructs, including first-class functions, currying, and more. It has multiple-inheritance, type inference, and meta-programming. It also integrates really well…
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The 12 tracks for QCon San Francisco 2026 (November 16-20) are now live. Four tracks cover AI in production. The other eight cover the rest of what senior engineering still demands: distributed systems, architecture teardowns, resilience, platform internals, API design, and Staff+ leadership. Early bird pricing runs until May 12th.
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Uber engineers migrated over 75,000 test classes from JUnit 4 to JUnit 5 using automated code transformation with OpenRewrite and internal orchestration. By enabling the JUnit Platform for dual execution with Bazel and validating changes through CI, the team modernized testing infrastructure while maintaining correctness at monorepo scale.
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Wayne Bell and Dan Gomez Blanco discuss the architectural and cultural shift required to scale observability at Skyscanner. They share how moving to OpenTelemetry decoupled instrumentation from vendors, and explain why treating a platform as a product - with engineers as customers - is the key to reducing incident rates and eliminating technical debt across 800+ microservices.
By Dan Gomez Blanco, Wayne BellIn this podcast, Jaromir Hamala, a seasoned Java engineer specialising in high-throughput data systems, shares his thoughts on how developers can tackle high-performance software development. He touches on the benefits of modern Java that allow writing idiomatic Java code while remaining "mechanically sympathetic", and also on his experience debugging a Linux kernel bug.
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Discover how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) Java SDK is establishing a new architectural discipline for enterprise LLM integrations. By defining explicit contracts and leveraging MCP servers as anti-corruption layers, it ensures governance, loose coupling, and security alignment with the JVM ecosystem and existing operational practices, moving integrations beyond fragility to resilience.
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