Week in review: 7 August 2023

New authors

Welcome to Simon Verhoeven, who published a first article on foojay.io this week.

Published this week

Kafka

Sumith Puri Aug 7, 2023 8,967 views

Starting Apache Kafka on Java 8, Win 10

Learn how to configure Kafka topics and create a Java-based Kafka Consumer and Producer, withApache Kafka v3.4 on Windows 10.

KafkaTutorials

Developer Tools

Simon Verhoeven Aug 8, 2023 12,535 views

OpenRewrite: we all grow older, but do our projects really have to?

An introduction to how OpenRewrite can help you modernize your application, refactor it, perform migrations, and more!

Developer ToolsOpenRewriteTools

Java Core

A N M Bazlur Rahman Aug 9, 2023 13,766 views

Sealed Interfaces & Pattern Matching: Java's Modern Capabilities

Sealed classes and interfaces with pattern matching provide powerful new tools for more explicit, controlled, and flexible design in Java.

Java CoreTutorials

Observability

Roni Dover Aug 9, 2023 7,680 views

Observing Java on Docker Compose Using OpenTelemetry

An easy non-obtrusive way to collect data about your dockerized app without changing your existing docker-compose.yml or docker files.

Observability

Java

Johannes Bechberger Aug 10, 2023 4,968 views

AsyncGetCallTrace Reworked: Frame by Frame Iterative Touch!

This article is the first of two articles covering the draft of a new iterator-based stack walking API, which builds the base for the …

JavaJava CoreJEPsPerformance

GitLab

Marit van Dijk Aug 10, 2023 9,086 views

Working with GitLab Merge Requests in IntelliJ IDEA

IntelliJ IDEA supports working with GitLab Merge Requests. See Merge Requests, perform code reviews and merge them from inside IntelliJ …

GitLabIntelliJ IDEATutorials

Embedded

Frank Delporte Aug 11, 2023 5,419 views

Pi4J Operating System for Java development on Raspberry Pi

Pi4J is an ideal way to introduce the Java language into experiments with electronic components. And Pi4J OS makes this even easier.

EmbeddedJavaJavaFXPi4JRaspberry Pi