Java / NLJUG

J-Spring 2023: Say goodbye to bugs and anti-patterns with Error Prone – Rick Ossendrijver

Are you tired of constantly fixing the same bugs and anti-patterns in your codebase? At Picnic, we’ve found a solution that not only resolves bugs once and for all, but also leads to a more consistent and high-quality codebase. Enter Error Prone: a tool that automates large-scale refactorings in your Java codebase. As a compiler […]

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July 3, 2023

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J-Spring 2023: Major Migrations Made Easy – Tim te Beek

Conferences love to show you the latest and greatest framework versions and language features. But those new technologies can feel a world away back at work. And it can be hard to justify the time spent to upgrade something that’s not broken, such as JUnit 4. What if you could migrate in mere minutes? With […]

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July 3, 2023

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J-Spring 2023: Effective observability for cloud native applications – Grace Jansen

Our cloud-native environments are more complex than ever before! So how can we ensure that the applications we’re deploying to them are behaving as we intended them to? This is where effective observability is crucial. It enables us to monitor our applications in real-time and analyse and diagnose their behaviour in the cloud. However, until […]

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July 3, 2023

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J-Spring 2023: Beyond Senior Java Dev: the next steps for the technical career – Bruno Souza

You worked hard, learned a lot of technologies, and built your experience with challenging projects. You reached an enviable position in your company and team. Congrats, you are an accomplished Senior Java Dev! Now what? What are the next steps? Many companies push developers into management positions. It could be a path, if this is […]

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July 3, 2023

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J-Spring 2023: The (r)evolution on the JVM – what’s the impact on Java and Kotlin? – Urs Peter

Finally: Project Loom has been officially announced for Java 21, which will be released at the end of this year! Loom will be a game-changer for the JVM’s concurrency model, delivering ‘reactive’ characteristics out of the box without the need for complex concurrency abstractions. Regarding Kotlin, the concurrency features project Loom offers are already available […]

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July 3, 2023

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J-Spring 2023: Improving your skills with the debugger – Bouke Nijhuis

This presentation is about levelling up your debugging game. Most developers only use the proverbial tip of the iceberg when working with the debugger. There is so much more to learn so let’s have a look at interesting mechanisms like: – remote debugging (why stay on your local machine?) – hot code swapping (faster than […]

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July 3, 2023

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J-Spring 2023: Sailing Modern Java – Piotr Przybyl

Another (half a) year has passed, another major Java™ version has been released. Java was supposed ‘to be slow’. However, Java turns out to evolve so fast, that next releases aren’t just version bumps, but might significantly change the rules of the game. That’s a good reason to check out what’s new in Java. We’re […]

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July 3, 2023

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J-Spring 2023: Uh, Does This Thing Actually Work? Modern Microservices Testing – Holly Cummins

To realise the promise of microservices, individual services must be independently deployable, and they should be deployed often. But that’s easier said than done. Releases take confidence. How does a business achieve enough confidence to release often without getting bogged down in manual QA bottlenecks? Is automating tests too expensive? How do services know if […]

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July 3, 2023

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J-Spring 2023: Coding your documentation – Hubert Klein Ikkink

To write (technical) documentation usually means we leave our coding environment and for example need to start a word processor or open a wiki where we type our documentation. Especially when we (must) use word processor software a lot of things will distract us from writing content: we need to worry about formatting, styles and […]

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July 3, 2023

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J-Spring 2023: Five Tricks for Java – Holly Cummins

The code we write has a climate impact. But how big is that impact? How do we measure it? How do we reduce it? Is the cloud helping? What’s going on with Virginia? Are we still allowed to do CI/CD? Will native compilation save us? Is Java even a good choice anymore? This talk discusses […]

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July 3, 2023

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