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The 2025.05 / 134th edition of airhacks.tv with the following topics: REST is about manipulating resources with well-defined HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) while gRPC is just remote method invocation, Quarkus request-scoped beans are faster than in…

Subscribe to airhacks.fm podcast via: spotify| iTunes| RSS The #344 airhacks.fm episode with Colt McNealy (@coltmcnealy) about: building a durable workflow / distributed OS product (LittleHorse.io) with pure Java is available for download.

The 2025.04 / 133rd edition of airhacks.tv with the following topics: "Treating LLMs as microservices with APIs for enterprise integration, Java is excellent for model inference and production deployment, Enterprise applications benefit from LLMs as decis…

Questions and topics for the 2025.05 /134th edition of airhacks.tv: A more straightforward explanation of the difference between gRPC and REST regarding query APIs Performance of RequestScoped on Quarkus.

Subscribe to airhacks.fm podcast via: spotify| iTunes| RSS The #343 airhacks.fm episode with Francesco Nigro (@forked_franz) about: Apache Storm, Apache Kafka, Disruptor, linearizability, queuing and JCTools is available for download.

Subscribe to airhacks.fm podcast via: spotify| iTunes| RSS The #342 airhacks.fm episode with Volker Simonis (@volker_simonis) about: predator plants, JVM ports, openJDK and the impact of opensource on maintainability is available for download.

In preparation for the "30 years of Java" keynote at the JavaLand conference, I compiled a list of Java IDEs and editors: Android Studio Aptana Studio Arachnoid Atom BBEdit BEA WebLogic Workshop BlueJ Borland JBuilder Brief Cloud9 IDE Codeanywhere Code::B…

Subscribe to airhacks.fm podcast via: spotify| iTunes| RSS The #241 airhacks.fm episode with Richard Bair (@RichardBair) about: Hedera’s public ledger, the Hashgraph algorithm, consensus mechanism and Java implementation is available for download.

In preparation for the "30 years of Java" keynote at the JavaLand conference, I compiled a list of Java application server and middleware products: Apache Tomcat Apache TomEE Apache Geronimo Apache JServ Eclipse Jetty WildFly (JBoss AS) JBoss Enterprise A…

Subscribe to airhacks.fm podcast via: spotify| iTunes| RSS The #340 airhacks.fm episode with Francesco Nigro (@forked_franz) about: about scalability, Universal Scalability Law, Coordinated Omission Problem, performance testing and broken load generators…

Convenient and nice location: all sessions were in one building - there was enough time to walk between sessions, have a hallway conversation ...and get a coffee.

Subscribe to airhacks.fm podcast via: spotify| iTunes| RSS The #339 airhacks.fm episode with Burr Sutter (@burrsutter) about: practical integration of LLMs with Java and Quarkus in enterprise environments is available for download.

Subscribe to airhacks.fm podcast via: spotify| iTunes| RSS The #337 airhacks.fm episode with Alvaro Hernandez (@ahachete) about: running PostgreSQL on Kubernetes and the role of Kubernetes in enterprise projects is available for download.

Subscribe to airhacks.fm podcast via: spotify| iTunes| RSS The #338 airhacks.fm episode with Volker Simonis (@volker_simonis) about: Predator plants, Carnivorous Plant Society, SAP, Sun Microsystems, MaxDB and Java is available for download.

Subscribe to airhacks.fm podcast via: spotify| iTunes| RSS The #336 airhacks.fm episode with Kevlin Henney (@KevlinHenney) about: distributed computing, actor-based communication, object-oriented programming and Java is available for download.

This is the way: Serverless First With Java on AWS[online event] Riyadh Java User Group session 10 March 2025 https://www.meetup.com/riyadh-java-users-group/events/306402206/ JavaOne: Real World Lean Java Practices, Patterns, Hacks, and Workarounds [SES11…

Jfokus: Real World Lean Java Practices, Patterns, Hacks and Workarounds session Jfokus Stockholm 4 February 2025 https://jfokus.se/talks/2524 JUG Helsinki: Pure Java LLM Patterns, Tricks and Hacks for the Enterprise session JUG Helsinki Helsinki 19 Februa…

The 2025.03 / 132nd edition of airhacks.tv with the following topics: " J2EE to Quarkus migration can save around 50% memory for on-premise deployments, EJBs are straightforward to migrate but MDBs with two-phase commit are challenging, Change Data Capture

Subscribe to airhacks.fm podcast via: spotify| iTunes| RSS The #335 airhacks.fm episode with Francesco Nigro (@forked_franz) about: scalability considerations with Vert.x, Netty, virtual threads and Quarkus is available for download.

Questions and topics for the 2025.03 / 132nd edition of airhacks.tv with the following topics: How should I handle MDBs (Message-Driven Beans) and two-phase commits when migrating Java EE applications to Quarkus while minimizing code rewrites?

From Jakarta EE and MicroProfile, Setup and (System) Testing to internal application structure, GraalVM and serverless architectures:

Subscribe to airhacks.fm podcast via: spotify| iTunes| RSS The #334 airhacks.fm episode with Burr Sutter (@burrsutter) about: Java, JBoss, application servers and Quarkus is available for download.

This session was presented live at Jfokus Stockholm: This session is about practical, no-nonsense coding.

The 2025.02 / 131st edition of airhacks.tv with the following topics: "AWS Lambda authorizers for API Gateway, sealed interfaces in Java, caching strategies and considerations, focus on integration and end-to-end testing over unit testing, writing simple…

Subscribe to airhacks.fm podcast via: spotify| iTunes| RSS The #333 airhacks.fm episode with Christian Humer (@grashalm_) about: Java, GraalVM and running Java on Java is available for download.

Subscribe to airhacks.fm podcast via: spotify| iTunes| RSS The #332 airhacks.fm episode with Richard Bair (@RichardBair) about: Swing, Blockchain, distributed programming and solving the Byzantine Generals Problem is available for download.

Questions and topics for the 2025.02 / 131st edition of airhacks.tv with the following topics: caching strategies for databases moving fast, what to refactor, lessons learned the enhanced purpose of sealed interfaces Jfokus conference report Digma product…

Subscribe to airhacks.fm podcast via: spotify| iTunes| RSS The #331 airhacks.fm episode with Alvaro Hernandez (@ahachete) about: PostgreSQL performance optimizations, JDBC contributions, SCRAM authentication and distributed databases is available for down…

Subscribe to airhacks.fm podcast via: spotify| iTunes| RSS The #330 airhacks.fm episode with Francesco Nigro (@forked_franz) about: about Java, performance, mechanical sympathy, low level optimizations ...and breakdance is available for download.

Subscribe to airhacks.fm podcast via: spotify| iTunes| RSS The #329 airhacks.fm episode with Ladislav Thon (@ladicek) about: CDI 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, CDI-lite, deployment-time optimizations and Quarkus is available for download.

Subscribe to airhacks.fm podcast via: spotify| iTunes| RSS The #327 airhacks.fm episode with Alvaro Hernandez (@ahachete) about: Enterprise Java, Quarkus and cloud-native PostgreSQL is available for download.

Subscribe to airhacks.fm podcast via: spotify| iTunes| RSS The #328 airhacks.fm episode with Gerald Venzl (@GeraldVenzl) about: the inner workings of SQL query parsing, prepared statements, connection pooling and serverless workloads with Oracle Database…

The 2025.01 / 130th edition of airhacks.tv with the following topics: "Java well-suited for LLM inference and training, NoOps concept possible with serverless architecture, cloud services offer better automation through APIs, on-premise serverless less be…

The 2024.12 / 129th edition of airhacks.tv with the following topics: "Kubernetes true costs including VPC and network components, Mobile development options with pros and cons, Java's capabilities for local LLM inference, Historical influence of Steve Jo…

Subscribe to airhacks.fm podcast via: spotify| iTunes| RSS The #325 airhacks.fm episode with Alfonso Peterssen (@TheMukel) about: running Java on Java aka Espresso and LLMs on Java updates is available for download.

Subscribe to airhacks.fm podcast via: spotify| iTunes| RSS The #326 airhacks.fm episode with Ladislav Thon (@ladicek) about: Didaktik Gama, NoSQL with MySQL, JBoss, Thorntail and Quarkus is available for download.

Questions and topics for the 2024.12 / 129th edition of airhacks.tv with the following topics: re:Invent 2024 conference news Corrections to the calculation of the cost of Kubernetes in the 128th episode (I was too optimistic) Which technology to choose f…

Subscribe to airhacks.fm podcast via: spotify| iTunes| RSS The #324 airhacks.fm episode with Mario Fusco (@mariofusco) about: early programming experiences, enterprise Java, Scala and Drools is available for download.

Subscribe to airhacks.fm podcast via: spotify| iTunes| RSS The #323 airhacks.fm episode with Phillip Krueger (@phillipkruger) about: .mobi and early Enterprise Java, GraphQL, SmallRye, MicroProfile and Quarkus is available for download.

Subscribe to airhacks.fm podcast via: spotify| iTunes| RSS The #322 airhacks.fm episode with Bruce Hopkins about: Java development with ChatGPT and the ChatGPT for Java book is available for download.

Subscribe to airhacks.fm podcast via: spotify| iTunes| RSS The #321 airhacks.fm episode with Christos Kotselidis (@CKotselidis) about: TornadoVM, GPU acceleration, LLM inference and motorcycle electronics is available for download.

The Short Way to Serverless NoOps on AWS[online event] conference session 22nd November 2024 https://devopsstage.com/speakers/adam-bien/ JUG: Pure Java LLM Integration session JUG Vienna 25th November 2024 https://www.meetup.com/java-vienna/events/2983830…

Subscribe to airhacks.fm podcast via: spotify| iTunes| RSS The #320 airhacks.fm episode with Vadym Kazulkin (@VKazulkin) about: serverless Java with AWS Lambda, Java's performance on lambda compared to node.js, AWS SnapStart, Lambda functions and microser…

Questions and topics for the 2024.11 / 128th edition of airhacks.tv with the following topics: K8 cost estimation UUID generation for persistence Thoughts on: How to migrate from EJB to CDI?

Subscribe to airhacks.fm podcast via: spotify| iTunes| RSS The #319 airhacks.fm episode with Gerald Venzl (@geraldvenzl) about: JDBC drivers and interesting, proprietary Oracle Database features is available for download.

Subscribe to airhacks.fm podcast via: spotify| iTunes| RSS The #318 airhacks.fm episode with Dmytro Liubarsky (@langchain4j) about: easy RAG with langchain4j, MicroProfile and langchain4j "synergies" and future developments is available for download.

The JDD conference organizers asked me to record a short promotion of my talk, so I recorded the very first short.

Subscribe to airhacks.fm podcast via: spotify| iTunes| RSS The #317 airhacks.fm episode with Georgios Andrianakis (@geoand86) about: langchain4j, Quarkus and the architecture of LLM integration is available for download.

This session was presented live at Devoxx Belgium: From REST API and SDKs to langchain4j to fully managed cloud solutions to local integration with jlama and llama3.java of open source foundation models.

I picked the most interesting youtube.com/bienadam/shorts and presented them live at Devoxx Belgium.