TDD and Other Drugs
Explore effective testing practices, quality threat modeling, and strategies to improve code quality. Learn to treat test code with the same care as production code for better software development.
Pure Agile - Building a Culture Without Scrum by Kanban & XP
Explore agile methodologies beyond traditional frameworks, focusing on building a culture of adaptability, efficiency, and continuous improvement without rigid practices.
Taming the Event Chaos with a Workflow Engine
Orchestrate and manage complex event-driven systems using Flowable, Spring Boot, and Kafka. Learn to implement BPMN, CMMN, and DMN standards for better control and visibility in microservices architectures.
How Graph Data Science Can Turbocharge Your Knowledge Graph
Explore how Graph Data Science enhances Knowledge Graphs, offering powerful insights through centrality algorithms and node embeddings. Learn applications in drug discovery and get started with Neo4j.
Event-Driven Autoscaling for Serverless Java
Explore event-driven autoscaling for serverless Java on Kubernetes using KEDA and Knative, focusing on Apache Kafka metrics for efficient scaling of Quarkus applications.
The Art of Code
Explore the creative side of programming, from Conway's Game of Life to esoteric languages, quines, and live coding performances. Discover how code can be an art form beyond practical applications.
Java on CRaC - Superfast JVM Application Startup
Explore CRaC, a new OpenJDK project for checkpointing Java applications to reduce startup and warmup times in microservices, addressing JVM limitations without sacrificing performance.
Distributed Applications - Better Off with Frameworks, Kubernetes, Service Meshes, or All of Them at Once
Comparing approaches for distributed applications: frameworks, Kubernetes, service meshes. Explore advantages, challenges, and potential combinations for effective microservice architecture implementation.
The Next Generation of Angular Applications
Angular 14's standalone components, composition API, typed forms, and new routing features revolutionize application architecture. Learn how to integrate these powerful concepts and optimize your existing Angular projects.
Game of Loom - Implementation Patterns and Performance Implications Playing with Virtual Threads
Explore virtual threads in Java, comparing performance with native threads using Conway's Game of Life. Learn implementation patterns and performance implications for scalable, efficient programming.
Copilot to Cover - Why AI Can't Replace Developers but Can Make Life Better
Explore AI-augmented coding tools, their potential to streamline development, and limitations. Learn about different approaches, pros and cons, and how AI can transform tasks like unit testing for Java developers.
No More Xmx - Adaptable Heap Sizing for Containerized Java Applications
Discover Google's Adaptable Heap Sizing solution for Java in containers. Learn how it automatically adjusts heap usage, improves stability, and reduces memory-related errors without manual Xmx tuning.
Database Hacking 101 - Building Fast Bulk Import in Java + C
Explore techniques for high-performance CSV imports in time-series databases using io_uring, with benchmarks and implementation details from QuestDB's CTO.
From Objects to Functions
Exploring functional programming techniques for error handling and logging in Kotlin, with practical examples to improve code readability and maintainability.
How to Train Machine Learning Agents to Do Fun and Absurd Things Using Unity3D
Explore machine learning in game development using Unity3D. Learn to implement and train AI agents for unique behaviors, from bullet-dodging to headbanging, blending software engineering with game design.
Taking Your Web App Offline in a Good Sense
Learn to build offline-first web apps with modern APIs and best practices. Explore techniques for data preservation, syncing, and providing excellent UX regardless of connection status.
Reuse Old Smartphones to Monitor 3D Prints, with WebRTC, WebSockets and Serverless
Learn to repurpose old smartphones for 3D print monitoring using WebRTC, WebSockets, and serverless technology. Discover how to build a web app for remote print status checks and video streaming.
The Hacker’s Guide to Kubernetes Security
Comprehensive guide to Kubernetes security risks, focusing on OWASP Top 10. Live demos of exploits, common vulnerabilities, and best practices for hardening k8s clusters.
Dungeons, Dragons, and Graph Databases
Explore graph databases through a D&D lens. Learn how to model complex relationships, write efficient queries, and optimize your dungeon crawl using this powerful database technology.
Multi Player Enterprise Applications - Why and How to Build a Collaborative UX
Explore collaborative UX in enterprise apps: real-time editing, CRDTs, and architectural tradeoffs for seamless multi-user interactions without conflicts or data loss.
Deserialization Exploits in Java - Why Should I Care?
Explore Java deserialization vulnerabilities, attack chains, and security issues in JSON, XML, and YAML. Learn mitigation strategies and new Java 17 features to enhance application security.