Markus Westergren

I help professional Java developers like you to write maintainable code so that you can become a sought-after expert in the software development industry.

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May 5, 2026 Markus Westergren

The Code Was Always the Door

AI is automating the code, not the engineering. A guide for senior developers on shepherding AI through the work that was always the actual …

Java

May 4, 2026 Annelore Egger, Buhake Sindi, Catherine Edelveis, Dominika Tasarz, François Martin, Frank Delporte, Geertjan Wielenga, Gerrit Grunwald, Iryna Dohndorf, Jago de Vreede, Markus Westergren, René Schwietzke

Foojay Podcast #94: More Than a Blog: How Foojay Connects, Sustains, and Evolves the Java Community

Foojay.io, the website for the Friends of OpenJDK, is turning six years old. To celebrate, Frank Delporte headed to JCON in Cologne, …

Conference Java

Feb 2, 2026 A N M Bazlur Rahman, Frank Delporte, Geertjan Wielenga, Ko Turk, Markus Westergren, Maarten Mulders, Simon Martinelli

Announcing: Sustainability for Java Developers

Java developers from around the world are writung a book about a question that's becoming impossible to ignore: how do we write software …

Book Announcement Books

Aug 4, 2025 Markus Westergren

Why Java is Still Worth Learning in 2025: A Developer's 25-Year Journey

In 2025, Java offers something rare in the tech world: stability without stagnation, innovation without disruption, and a community that …

Jakarta EE Java

Jun 2, 2025 Brian Vermeer, Frank Delporte, Baruch Sadogursky, Markus Westergren, Richard Fichtner

Foojay Podcast #72: JCon Report, Part 1 - Grow your career, public speaking, 30 years of Java, greener coding,...

On May 13th and 14th, Foojay attended the JCON conference in Köln, Germany, where we did over 30 live-stream interviews. In this episode, we …

Conference Podcast