Foojay Podcast #75: JCON Report, Part 4 - Tips and Tricks for Java Devs

This is the final part of the JCON 2025 interviews with a lot of tips and tricks!

In the three previous podcasts, we featured interviews from the JCON conference on “Being a better Java developer ,” “Evolutions in Java ,” and “How to use AI with Java .” However, we talked to many more people during the conference, so this podcast focuses on tips and tricks. Let’s learn from the many other experienced visitors of JCON.

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00:00 Introduction

00:34 Merlin Bögershausen - OpenRewrite and Azul Intelligence Cloud
https://www.linkedin.com/in/merlin-boegershausen

07:08 Eberhard Wolff - Measure developer productivity
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eberhardwolff

12:28 Annelore Egger - Dealing with bad code, it’s not your fault
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anneloredev

15:21 Michael Vitz - Unexpected things you can do with Java
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelvitz

18:40 Michael Simons - Neo4J database models
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-simons-196712139
https://motherduck.com/duckdb-book-brief

23:13 Stefan Böhringer - Building a project for education from scratch with Quarkus
https://www.linkedin.com/in/datenschauer

28:14 Johannes Rabauer - Learned from earlier projects
https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannes-rabauer

30:33 Roland Weisleder - ArchUnit, testing architecture with unit tests
https://www.linkedin.com/in/roland-weisleder

34:26 Simon Martinelli - htmx, full stack, Vaadin, JOOQ
https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonmartinelli

37:02 Loïc Magnette - Web development, Angular, React, Java community versus others
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lomagnette

40:41 Tanja Obradovic - Eclipse Foundation, JakartaEE
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanja-obradovic-095604

49:19 Syed Usman Ahmad - Grafana, Prometheus, monitoring tools, OpenTelemetry
https://www.linkedin.com/in/usmanlinux

55:38 François Martin - Tools, chaos testing, Toxyproxy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fran%C3%A7oismartin

01:01:31 Conclusion