This year’s Jfokus was probably the busiest I have had. My schedule filled up even though I didn’t have a talk at this year’s conference. This year, I joined the group of volunteer stage hosts, so I had the pleasure of introducing speakers in one of the rooms on Wednesday...
In the past year, several high-profile outages disrupted airports, cloud platforms, and critical digital services worldwide. In each case, the software involved had been tested, certified, and deployed in accordance with accepted practices. Yet, when assumptions broke, the impact travelled fast across organisations, supply chains, and international borders. These recent...
As the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) moves closer to enforcement, engineering teams across Europe are being asked to demonstrate secure development practices, software supply chain transparency, and improved vulnerability management. For many organisations, the focus has shifted to compliance: what needs to be shown, documented, and certified. However, compliance alone...
Welcome to issue number three hundred and eighteen of Hashtag Jakarta EE! As I write this, I am in Brussels for FOSDEM’26. Stay tuned for an update from this conference in a separate post shortly. Fun fact is that I am sitting in exactly the same place in the lobby...
The Open VSX Registry is core infrastructure in the developer supply chain, delivering extensions developers download, install, and rely on every day. As the ecosystem grows, maintaining that trust matters more than ever. A quick note on terminology: Eclipse Open VSX is an open source project, and the Open VSX...
In the first blog post of this SBOM series, Driving Software Supply Chain Security: Practical Support for Open Source Projects in SBOM Implementation , we introduced our initiative and outlined how we are offering hands-on implementation support to early adopters projects. The second blog post, Project-Led SBOM Implementation: Our Journey...
Welcome to issue number three hundred and seventeen of Hashtag Jakarta EE! My first Jakarta EE presentation of 2026 was at Valencia JUG this week. This was the second time the JUG met after the restart after the pandemic. I wasn’t the only one presenting, as I was there with...
On Tuesday this week I presented The Past, Present, and Future of Enterprise Java at the Valencia JUG. In addition to my talk, we also had a short presentation from Tanja about how to contribute to Jakarta EE as well as a panel of Eclipse Foundation colleagues presenting what we...
Welcome to issue number three hundred and sixteen of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The conference speaking season is starting up again. My first talk of the year will be at Valencia JUG where I will present The Past, Present, and Future of Enterprise Java. After that, I will be attending FOSDEM...