It AI-n't What You Think!
Innovations have transformed human lives in ways that make us wonder how people managed before. Yet, despite these advancements, we often resist embracing innov...
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Architecture.Next: 4 Trends Towards Better Architecture
What does the future of software architecture hold? In this keynote, Mark Richards dives deep into four current and emerging trends in software architecture tha...
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Architecture Blindspots, Biases, and Blunders: Avoiding Common Pitfalls in System Design
Architectural decisions are often influenced by blindspots, biases, and unchecked assumptions, which can lead to significant long-term challenges in system desi...
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From Domain Driven Design (DDD) to Delivery
Domain-Driven Design (DDD) has been guiding large development projects since 2003, when Eric Evans’ seminal book was released. DDD is divided into two parts: St...
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Designing Microservices
How does designing microservices differ from designing more traditional applications? What is a better way to learn than to take a problem, analyze the requirem...
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Jakarta EE Meets AI
Most of us aren’t building our own Large Language Models (LLMs); instead, we’re consuming and integrating them into enterprise applications. And guess what? Jav...
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Keeping Your Java Hot by Solving the JVM Warmup Problem
Java bytecodes and class files deliver on the original vision of "write once, run anywhere." The Just-in-Time (JIT) compiler enables JVM-based applications to c...
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Mastering the System Design Methodology
Mastering the System Design Methodology is a must-attend talk for developers and architects seeking to elevate their system design skills to new heights. In thi...
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9 Fallacies of Event driven Architectures
The event-driven paradigm has become one of the most popular architectural styles for microservices, promising to make enterprises more reactive and adaptable t...
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What The Functional Programming
Functional Programming (FP) is often perceived as "mathy" and academic, yet many developers are finding that it offers practical advantages for building reliabl...
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Works in all Browsers! Interoperability Beyond Availability
Baseline provides a snapshot of the web features supported by all browsers, but feature availability is just the first step in creating the best modern web expe...
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Testing for Accessibility
Accessibility is a key part of software development, and feedback is an integral part of agile development, where we verify if things work the way they are supp...
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Know Your Java?
Many of us have significant experience in Java. Yet, from time to time, we get tripped up by some code that doesn’t behave the way we expect. In this presentati...
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Securing the Digital Landscape: A Deep Dive into OWASP Top 10 for Applications, APIs, and LLMs
Join us for an immersive journey into the heart of modern cybersecurity challenges. In this groundbreaking talk, we will explore the intricacies of securing dig...
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API = Some REST and HTTP, right? RIGHT?!
What does it really mean to build RESTful APIs? In this interactive session, we’ll break down the essential considerations for building and maintaining robust R...
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Digital Knowledge Management for Architects
“Humans became behaviorally modern the moment they committed to storing abstract information outside their brains.” —Lyn Wadley As architects, we often bridge ...
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Patterns for Software Architecture
Much like how design patterns can help us communicate design decisions, architectural patterns can help us crystallize architectural decisions and plan how to a...
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Boost Your Performance and Developer Productivity with Jakarta EE 11
Jakarta EE 11 marks the first release under the new release cadence, allowing it to incorporate features from the latest Java Long-Term Support (LTS) releases. ...
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The Intersection of Architecture and Implementation
A common saying among software architects is, “that’s an implementation detail.” Too often, we treat software architecture and implementation as two separate ph...
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The Art of Java Language Pattern Matching
Project Amber within OpenJDK focuses on introducing smaller, productivity-oriented Java language features. One key area of innovation from Project Amber is patt...
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Qualities of a Highly Effective Manager
Some people aim for leadership positions such as team lead, manager, director, or VP, while others find themselves in these roles due to opportunities that aris...
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Escaping Developer Nightmares: DORA Edition
Have you been working on legacy projects with outdated codebases, suboptimal documentation, and reliance on obsolete technologies? Have you been told that fixin...
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Exploring Java OSS with LLMs: A New Way to Approach Open-Source Code Reading
Reading and understanding large Java OSS (open-source software) projects can be challenging for many developers, especially when navigating unfamiliar, vast cod...
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Setting Up Data Driven Tests with Java Tools
Everyone knows that performing tests during development is essential. But when it comes to data-driven test cases, how do we ensure clean environments, reproduc...
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Architectural Patterns Focus: Security
In this session, we will discuss architectural concerns regarding security. How do microservices communicate securely with one another? What are some of the ess...
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Continuous Integration: I Invite You to Break My Build
Tools should aid and help a team to be productive and reach their full potential. We should never turn tools into a stick to punish, but rather into a carrot to...
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Six Secrets to Succeeding with Microservices
Microservices architecture has become a buzzword in the tech industry, promising unparalleled agility, scalability, and resilience. However, according to Gartne...
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Scaling Servers with Virtual Threads
Threads are lightweight, but they do not scale well. That's one of the reasons we have been focused on the elastic capabilities of the cloud. Unfortunately,...
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Java Enable Preview: Vector API
In this session, we will discuss the Vector API in preview in Java. We will begin by introducing SIMD (Single Instruction/Multiple Data) and explore how it can ...
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Enhancing LLMs with Graph Technology
Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing, but challenges with accuracy and explainability persist. This talk introduces Grap...
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AI-Enhanced Big Data: Integrating Private LLMs and Vector Databases
In this talk, we explore the fusion of AI, particularly ChatGPT, with data-intensive architectures. The discussion covers the enhancement of big data processing...
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Communication Patterns for Distributed Architectures
By their very nature, distributed applications have to communicate. But, how do we exchange data and what are the consequences of choosing one solution over the...
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Hypermedia APIs and the Future of AI Agentic Systems
The age of hypermedia-driven APIs is finally upon us, unlocking a radical new future for AI agents. By combining the power of the Hydra linked-data vocabulary w...
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From Domain Models to Domain Languages with Tagless-Final
In software development, distinguishing between domain logic and side effects is essential for maintaining clarity, consistency, and composability within a syst...
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The Magic of Small Things – Microservices 10 Years On
In the early 2010s, the tech landscape was vastly different: Docker was a job title, K8S sounded like a boyband, Kafka evoked existential anxiety, and "Chaos En...
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Agents Everywhere
This session explores recent developments in autonomous agents, focusing on their integration with Large Language Models (LLMs). We’ll dive into the emerging fi...
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The Three Amigos: Intermixing Pattern Matching, Records, and Sealed Classes
One of the coolest aspects of Java is the fact that the newer features do not live in isolation, but interplay quite nicely with each other. A place where this ...
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The Data Side of Event-Driven Architecture
Most people think that event-driven architecture is all about events—services triggering events and asynchronously passing data to other services that respond. ...
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Breaking Down Digital Barriers: Overcoming Challenges in Online Retail
In the competitive world of online retail, digital barriers can lead to abandoned carts, lost sales, and frustrated customers. But what are the root causes of t...
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Demystifying GenAI: Build a ChatGPT App with Vector Store
With ChatGPT taking center stage since 2023, developers who have yet to explore Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning may find the new terminologies overw...
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From Legacy to Cutting-Edge: Live Refactoring Java 8 to 24
Get ready to transform legacy Java 8 code into a modern Java application that fully leverages the language improvements and performance enhancements from Java 8...
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Structured Concurrency: Managing the Hierarchical Cancelation and Error Handling
Concurrency is a fundamental part of modern software development, but the many approaches available differ significantly in how they handle cancellation and err...
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Unlocking AI's Potential: Smarter Coding in Apache NetBeans IDE
Discover how AI can revolutionize your coding experience in Apache NetBeans IDE! This session will explore how AI-driven features like intelligent code completi...
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Java Enable Preview: Foreign Function and Memory Interface
Let us peer into the future of Java with the Foreign Function and Memory Interface, the new way to interact with native code. This session will cover the essent...
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Enterprise Architecture for Next-Gen Innovations
This talk explores how cutting-edge technologies and trends will shape the future of enterprise software development, creating opportunities for innovation and ...
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Rediscovering JavaScript
This presentation will explore the modern features of JavaScript that make it a pleasant language to use. Come to this presentation to get a quick jumpstart on ...
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The Fine Art of Canary Deployments
Canary deployments are the final piece of any Continuous Delivery or Continuous Deployment rollout. A canary deployment is a strategy that releases an applicati...
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Monoliths to Modular: Navigating the Transition
In recent years, application modernization has become a crucial focus for businesses looking to harness disruptive innovations in platform technologies. Moderni...
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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Unlocking our Future
In an industry obsessed with the next big thing, it’s easy to forget the foundation that brought us here. Progress isn't built solely on novelty—it's bu...
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Structured Concurrency in Java
Dividing a large problem into subproblems that are scheduled to run on different threads is a commonly used solution. We’ve used executors and the fork/join poo...
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Architecture Patterns for AI-Powered Applications
Since ChatGPT rocketed the potential of generative AI into the collective consciousness, there has been a race to add AI to everything. Product owners are excit...
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The Evolution of RAG
In this session, you’ll explore how Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), the primary architectural pattern of the Generative AI revolution, has evolved over th...
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Describing and Documenting Your Architecture
You’ve created an architecture and have plenty of diagrams to illustrate your solution. Now, you need to communicate that architectural solution to various stak...
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How Flow Works and other Curiosities
Have you ever wondered why the sensible defaults in software engineering in 2024 work so well? We adopt key metrics from Accelerate, team structures from Team T...
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Learning from Failures
It is very rare that a single action causes failure. Success or failure often depends on many factors, including how we communicate, trust, execute, and more. C...
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Black Friday Brilliance: Managing a Billion Transactions with Tech, Tactics, and Teamwork
Black Friday and Cyber Monday mark the busiest time of the year in retail, both in-store and online. During this critical period, businesses rely heavily on rob...
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Next-Gen Software Architecture with Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT
This session explores the integration of cutting-edge AI technologies into software architecture, offering senior developers and architects actionable insights ...
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Tools and Techniques for Infrastructure as Code
The cloud environment offers many benefits, including elasticity, the ability to scale up and scale down instances based on time or load, and load balancing to ...
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The Knowledge Graph - The Story from Daydream to Reality
Knowledge graphs have been quietly powering the future, unlocking new capabilities that were unimaginable just a few years ago. However, a few visionaries have ...
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Effect-Oriented Programming
A new paradigm called Effect-Oriented Programming (EOP) has emerged as a powerful approach for building reliable, composable, and maintainable software. By expl...
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Building AI powered Applications with Java
In the world of AI, context is king—a phrase that has gained even more relevance with the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs). While LLMs are evolving rapidly,...
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Optimizing Complex Workflows with Event-Driven Multi-Agentic Approach
This presentation explores the integration of event-driven data streaming techniques with multi-agentic generative AI workflows, offering a powerful approach to...
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OOP vs. Data Oriented Programming: Which One to Choose?
We rely heavily on polymorphism when programming with the object-oriented paradigm. That has served us really well, especially to create extensible code. Howeve...
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Pkl: Safe and Maintainable Config for Java Apps and Infrastructure
Configuration is often one of the most error-prone aspects of application and infrastructure management, where small mistakes can lead to catastrophic failures....
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Modernizing Legacy Systems: AI-Enhanced Cloud Adoption Frameworks
By 2030, 80 percent of heritage financial services firms will either go out of business, become commoditized, or exist only in a formal sense without competing ...
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