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J-Spring 2019: Sven Peters – Less Process, more Autonomy with a Team Playbook

Teams are different, projects are different, problems are different. Why are we still trying to squeeze teamwork into department processes, adding bureaucracy, and having organizational layers that makes it harder and much slower to get work done? Join Sven Peters, former lead evangelist at Atlassian now K15t, as he talks about creating a Team Playbook […]

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August 19, 2019

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J-Spring 2022: Coen Goedegebure – DevSecOps at scale: a case study on shifting-left cybersecurity

https://jspring.nl https://nljug.org As a passionate developer you are keen on producing maintainable, high-quality code that is, for a big part at least, covered by a green collection of unit tests. You updated the necessary documentation and the integration and acceptance tests have proven that your application does what it should do. Right before pressing the […]

TEQnation

July 4, 2022

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J-Spring 2022: Martijn Dashorst – Lessons Learned: Going from Floppy Disks to Cloud Deployments

https://jspring.nl https://nljug.org While our predecessor product(s) were a COBOL application and later a Windows client/server application distributed on floppies, since 2005 we rock a Java web application that has gone through a lot of changes to keep up with the times. No longer duplicating 5 1/4” 1.2M floppies over the weekend and mailing them to […]

TEQnation

July 4, 2022

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J-Spring 2024: Braving the Change: recalibrating to new realities – Tom Cools

‘Change is the only constant in our industry’… but they never told us it would go this fast. With the recent evolutions in AI, ‘change’ has shifted from a ‘constant’ to something better described as ’exponential,’ sparking excitement for some and existential dread for others. In this dynamic and insightful session, we’ll delve into the […]

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August 22, 2024

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J-Spring 2024: Future-Proofing Java: The Art of Crafting Resilient APIs – Steve Poole

Designing APIs is an art, a creative exercise. Getting it right for right now is hard, getting it right for tomorrow is even harder. This talk explores designing resilient Java APIs for upward compatibility, consumability, and flexibility. We’ll discuss the practicalities of ideas like encapsulation and inheritance, look at wider elements like consistency, and effective […]

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August 22, 2024

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J-Spring 2024: Going serverless with Quarkus, GraalVM native images and AWS Lambda – Bert Jan Schrijver

  A conference app backend makes the ideal candidate for a serverless architecture: Almost no traffic during the year, and peak traffic during conference days. In this talk, I’ll show how I migrated the backend for the NLJUG conference app (used to rate talks for conferences with 1500+ attendees) from a traditional approach with Java […]

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August 22, 2024

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J-Spring 2024: I won’t let Java confuse you! – Nataliia Dziubenko

Sometimes the code that seems clear can turn out to be quite deceiving, even in some really basic concepts. In such situations, it’s good to question whether that code doesn’t smell… Either way, it’s our responsibility to know about the cases where Java can be confusing and why. In this session we will peek deeper […]

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August 22, 2024

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J-Spring 2024: Introduction to Quantum Computing – Yassin Asri

Having earned a bachelor in physics and a master in software engineering, my objective for this session is to deliver a complete presentation to what quantum computing is all about, get you excited on the topic and provide a starting point for exploring Java quantum programming. Quantum computing promises exponentially faster computation by leveraging the […]

msmelt

August 22, 2024

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J-Spring 2024: Making your own Testcontainers module for fun and profit! – Oleg Šelajev

Testcontainers libraries are a de-facto standard for integration testing in the Java community. One of the reasons for its popularity is the ecosystem of the modules — pre-defined abstractions for creating containerized services for your tests in a single line of code. In this session, we’ll look at the architecture of Testcontainers modules and learn […]

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August 22, 2024

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J-Spring 2024: Mastering Java Performance: From Monitoring to Profiling – Lennart ten Wolde

This session builds on the principles discussed in the keynote and delves deeper into the hierarchy of performance bottlenecks in Java applications. We will address more complex examples of performance degradation in various systems such as frameworks, databases, and concurrency management. The focus is on the use of diagnostic tools and profiling techniques. These tools […]

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August 22, 2024

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