Foojay Podcast #64: Interviews at JFall about opensource, OpenJDK evolutions, Project Loom, JVM,...

Let’s wrap up this year with more interviews from the JFall conference.

In this episode you’ll learn more about Foojay, JVM internals and writing your own programming language, Project Loom and structured concurrency, learning at conferences, code reviews, creating desktop applications with Java, infrastructure as code, JUG Noord, and much more!

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Guests

• Geertjan Wielenga: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geertjanwielenga/
• Nataliia Dziubenko: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataliia-dziubenko-341919b8/
• Hanno Embregts: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannotify/
• Hinse ter Schuur: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hinseterschuur/
• Anthony Goubard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonygoubard/
• Steffan Norberhuis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steffannorberhuis/
• Paulien van Alst: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulienvanalst/
• Lutske de Leeuw: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lutske/
• Johan Hutting

Content

00:00 Introduction of topics and guests

01:09 Geertjan Wielenga: OpenJDK evolutions

01:47 The goal of Foojay, the website for the Friends Of OpenJDK
https://foojay.io/

03:49 Nataliia Dziubenko: What you can learn at conferences

04:48 Writing your own programming language on top of JVM

07:30 What it learned her about the Java compiler

08:38 How it influenced her career as a Java developer

11:20 Hanno Embregts: Project Loom, structured concurrency and scoped values

14:04 Playing music during conference talks

15:09 Important OpenJDK evolutions

17:07 Hinse ter Schuur: Learning at conferences

17:58 Best practices for code reviews

20:03 Anthony Goubard: Creating desktop apps with Java
https://www.japplis.com

22:45 Steffan Norberhuis: Infrastructure code for AWS
https://www.rocketleap.dev/

23:50 Java as a Cloud language

24:54 How developers look at infrastructure

26:03 Is getting locked into a single cloud vendor a risk?

28:03 Paulien van Alst, Lutske de Leeuw en Johan Hutting: Introducing JUG Noord
https://www.meetup.com/jug-noord

29:20 Introducing VoxxedDays Amsterdam
https://amsterdam.voxxeddays.com/

29:40 NLJUG versus local JUGs

30:06 Starting as a new speaker at JUGs

30:24 How to contribute to opensource

31:24 How to speak at JUG Noord

31:53 Learned at JFall

32:38 Outro