https://foojayio.github.io/website/today/author/mark-clarke/Articles written by Mark Clarke on foojay.io - Friends of OpenJDKHugoen-usFri, 22 Sep 2023 15:11:37 +0000https://foojayio.github.io/website/today/mastering-the-challenges-of-openjdk-migration/Fri, 22 Sep 2023 15:11:37 +0000https://foojayio.github.io/website/today/mastering-the-challenges-of-openjdk-migration/<p><strong>Ah, the halcyon days of Java development, where coding was king and APIs were the castle! From the nitty-gritty of the Java VM and garbage collection to the euphoria of leveraging new APIs, life was straightforward. With each Java update, you could expect nothing but improvements, a far cry from other ecosystems where every new version turned into a mini-project just to keep your codebase relevant. And with DevOps in the picture, version constraints felt like a thing of the past. Come 2017, Oracle promised us an accelerated release cycle, and life was good.</strong></p>