Tom Cools

BeJUG organizer, Java Champion and Developer Relations @ Timefold.

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Tom Cools Jul 8, 2026 554 views

AMD hyperthreading caused solver performance variance in our Java based cloud pods. Switching to ARM instances doubled throughput per …

Nov 18, 2024 6,328 views

At Devoxx and JFall, we talked with several people about staying physically and mentally healthy as software developers.

Jun 5, 2023 4,562 views

The Foojay Java User Group World Tour has already brought us all over the world. In this episode, the host decided to stay at home in …

Tom Cools Jan 24, 2022 21,989 views

There are some edge cases where you want to access Spring Beans in a static method, while you should always try to avoid this.

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