Java / NLJUG

J-Fall 2023: A fun and absurd introduction to Vector Databases – Alexander Chatzizacharias

Vector databases have emerged as an exciting new tech in the world of data storage. Unsurprisingly enough, they have become the go-to choice for storing vectors (who would have thought?!) and are widely used in conjunction with generative AI. Apart from their use in AI applications, they can also be extremely handy as search engines, […]

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April 11, 2024

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J-Fall 2023: A Passwordless Future! WebAuthn for Java Developers – Deepu K Sasidharan

    Software technology has seen leaps and bounds, but we are still relying on passwords when it comes to authentication and security. Weak passwords remain one of the major causes of breaches and security incidents. WebAuthn, the Web Authentication standard, provides a robust framework for passwordless authentication on the web. By leveraging public key […]

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April 11, 2024

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J-Fall 2023: AOT: Everything you need to know about GraalVM for Java applications – Alina Yurenko

In the past few years GraalVM got widely adopted by the Java ecosystem, and now it’s hard to imagine starting a new project, especially for the cloud, without at least considering going native. However, taking a new technology to production requires research and preparation. What is the best way to build and deploy such native […]

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May 15, 2024

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J-Fall 2023: ASCII to Unicode, what can possibly go w̵̳̓r̸̡̽ǒ̴̝n̴̬ͣg̶ͤ͜? – Adam Michalik

What is a character? What does “the length of a string” mean? How can I combine different scripts in one text? In the days of ASCII, the answers to these questions were plain and simple. However, as the need to support languages and scripts from around the world became increasingly important, the ASCII-oriented mindset must […]

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May 15, 2024

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J-Fall 2023: Authorization beyond @RolesAllowed – Arthur van Leeuwen

    We will take a tour of approaches to actually making authorization decisions in your system. This will take examples from multiple different authorization systems we’ve developed over the past 2 decades, as well as existing standards and tools, and highlight what to think about when it comes to authorization, some options for implementing […]

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May 15, 2024

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J-Fall 2023: Breeding 10x Developers with Developer Productivity Engineering – Justin Reock

Sasquatch. Yeti. The Loch Ness Monster. The 10x Developer. You may think of these as mythical creatures that can’t possibly exist, but the 10x Organization is very real. In this session, Gradle’s Justin Reock will explain how a dedicated Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE) organization can breed 10x Developers. By reducing the toil, friction, and frustration […]

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May 15, 2024

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J-Fall 2023: Butcher Virtual Threads like a pro! – Piotr Przybyl

Java™ 21 is real now. And so are virtual threads. Everyone got excited about them, yet you prefer to keep your Java 8 job forever and you already have a nice plan to “accidentally” derail the migration to 21 by using virtual threads in a very, very unfortunate way. What a pity… So you decided […]

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May 15, 2024

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J-Fall 2023: Calibrate Garbage Collection on the Ground and Run Your Java App – Ana Maria Mihalceanu

Struggling to understand which garbage collector fits the bill for your application needs? Will your choice affect the performance forecast for your Java system once containerized and in production? Throughout this session, we’ll examine two kinds of applications, CPU or I/O intensive, and gradually improve the GC configurations by evaluating the throughput, latency, and footprint […]

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May 15, 2024

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J-Fall 2023: Combating the struggles of modern cloud-native java developers – Grace Jansen

Moving our applications to the cloud has offered useful innovations and advantageous characteristics, including flexibility, dynamic scaling, and increased resiliency. However… it’s not all been sunshine and roses. Moving to the cloud can be hard and frustrating! As developers, we’re now dealing with an ever-changing and ever more complex landscape with new tools, technologies, and […]

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April 11, 2024

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J-Fall 2023: Databases unveiled; choose wisely – Robbert Noordzij

Data and databases play a vital role within applications. Relational databases are still the most widely used, but there are more types. In this session, I aim to unveil the different types of databases and how to utilise their unique strengths within your application.

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April 11, 2024

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