Foojay Podcast #64: Interviews at JFall about open source, OpenJDK evolutions, Project Loom, JVM, and more!
December 23, 2024Author(s)
Let's wrap up this year with more interviews from the JFall conference.
In this episode you'll learn more about Foojay, JVM internals and writing your own programming language, Project Loom and structured concurrency, learning at conferences, code reviews, creating desktop applications with Java, infrastructure as code, JUG Noord, and much more!
Video
Podcast (audio only)
Guests
- Geertjan Wielenga: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geertjanwielenga/
- Nataliia Dziubenko: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataliia-dziubenko-341919b8/
- Hanno Embregts: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannotify/
- Hinse ter Schuur: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hinseterschuur/
- Anthony Goubard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonygoubard/
- Steffan Norberhuis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steffannorberhuis/
- Paulien van Alst: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulienvanalst/
- Lutske de Leeuw: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lutske/
- Johan Hutting
Content
00:00 Introduction of topics and guests
01:09 Geertjan Wielenga: OpenJDK evolutions
01:47 The goal of Foojay, the website for the Friends Of OpenJDK
https://foojay.io/
03:49 Nataliia Dziubenko: What you can learn at conferences
04:48 Writing your own programming language on top of JVM
07:30 What it learned her about the Java compiler
08:38 How it influenced her career as a Java developer
11:20 Hanno Embregts: Project Loom, structured concurrency and scoped values
14:04 Playing music during conference talks
15:09 Important OpenJDK evolutions
17:07 Hinse ter Schuur: Learning at conferences
17:58 Best practices for code reviews
20:03 Anthony Goubard: Creating desktop apps with Java
https://www.japplis.com
22:45 Steffan Norberhuis: Infrastructure code for AWS
https://www.rocketleap.dev/
23:50 Java as a Cloud language
24:54 How developers look at infrastructure
26:03 Is getting locked into a single cloud vendor a risk?
28:03 Paulien van Alst, Lutske de Leeuw en Johan Hutting: Introducing JUG Noord
https://www.meetup.com/jug-noord
29:20 Introducing VoxxedDays Amsterdam
https://amsterdam.voxxeddays.com/
29:40 NLJUG versus local JUGs
30:06 Starting as a new speaker at JUGs
30:24 How to contribute to opensource
31:24 How to speak at JUG Noord
31:53 Learned at JFall
32:38 Outro
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