Author Archives: zettiec

Wednesday, January 12th, 2022 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LH9tJ6qSGQ 5:30-5:45: Announcements 5:45-7:15: Coding Interviews for Java Developers In the year 2000 – Joel Spolsky released his first “guerilla guide to interviewing” (most current version from 2006) https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/10/25/the-guerrilla-guide-to-interviewing-version-30/ This really started to set the … Continue reading →

Wednesday, November 10, 2021 Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/TTc7rZACvQk 5:30-5:45: Announcements 5:45-7:15: Moving Java Forward…Together The last 25 years have shown that Java has enriched the world we live in. Applications of all shapes and all sizes target a wide and diverse … Continue reading →

Wednesday October 13, 2021 Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Jg0Oa7UMGTs 5:30-5:45: Announcements 5:45-7:15: Java Logging Deep Dive SLF4j, JUL, Log4j, Logback….huh? Logging in the world of Java is a surprisingly deep subject. This presentation will explore the history of logging in the Java … Continue reading →

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yynucMPwmRk, September 8th,  2021 starting at 5:30pm MT 5:30-5:45: Announcements 5:45-7:15: Spinnaker and Kubernetes Back in 2005, when an unknown program called Hudson came onto the scene, I was pretty excited. I had used CruiseControl up to that point … Continue reading →

Wednesday, August 11, 2021 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFh6em8jPYo 5:30-5:45: Announcements 5:45-7:15: Are you Mocking Me (with Spock) Spock is a Groovy-based testing framework that leverages all the “best practices” of the last several years taking advantage of many of the development … Continue reading →

Details Wednesday, June 9th, 2021 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OuZMFyh0xE 5:30-5:45: Announcements 5:45-7:15: Reactive Microservices with Spring Boot and JHipster Microservice architectures are all the rage in JavaLand. They allow teams to develop services independently and deploy autonomously. Why microservices? IF you … Continue reading →

Wednesday May 12th, 2021 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NHBI2MojA8 5:30-5:45: Announcements 5:45-7:15: How and Why to Upgrade to Java 16 or 17 Java upgrades are sometimes seen as difficult and many applications are still running on an older version of Java. … Continue reading →

Wednesday, April 14, 2021 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddK4Wu1fY4I 5:30-5:45: Announcements 5:45-7:15: Managing State in Elastic Microservices Scaling stateless services is easy, but scaling their stateful data stores, not so much. This is true whether you are using an “old fashioned” … Continue reading →

Online Event – Wednesday March 10, 2021. Watch live at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbCOVruJGHc Foojay (http://foojay.io) is the new Java community platform with everything you need to do your daily Java development work — with reference materials on the latest OpenJDK versions, vendors, and … Continue reading →

Wednesday February 10, 2021 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqNMOJRfGIg 5:30-5:45: Announcements 5:45-7:15: Controlling your race with Micrometer and Spring Boot Imagine that you’re part of a (car) race team. You’re the one behind the screens to control the race and make some … Continue reading →