Interviews at JFall about opensource, OpenJDK evolutions, Project Loom, JVM,... (#64)

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!

Guests

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

22:45 Steffan Norberhuis: Infrastructure code for AWS
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
meetup.com/jug-noord
29:20 Introducing VoxxedDays Amsterdam
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